= Historical Links and Notes =

The following are various historical documents, to help in understanding the development of the VSO, and may be useful to review some time in the future, to mine for ideas for new features.

== VSO Overview ==

The [wiki:Overview VSO Overview] contains a partial VSO version history, along with some of the reasoning for the design choices.

== From Stanford VSO Website, circa 2003: ==

=== Samples & Surveys ===

  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/samples/se.html Existing Services] - samples of existing search service pages and query results presentation from the testbed archives. (7.05.2004)
  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/di.html Data Integration] - research in the area of data integration. (7.02.2003)
  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/survey03.html XML] Technology (7.02.2003)

=== Interface Samples ===

  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/poe.html Point of Entry] - a sample entry point to VSO with generalized queries (implemented to varying extents) (7.05.2004)
  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/obssearch.html MDI Search by Observable] - an implementation of a search using the MDI schema and translation table (7.05.2004)
  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/ti3.pl Graphical display of search results] (time intervals) - java charting applets

=== XML Schemata ===

  * Frank's 1st cut at a [http://virtualsolar.org/docs/schemas/vso_nso_draft_20020712.xsd XML Schema for Solar Data Description]
  * MDI Schemata
    * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/schema/mdi1.xsd version 1] - [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/schema/mdi1.html sample document] (9.08.2002)
    * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/schema/mdi2.xsd version 2] - [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/schema/mdi2.html sample document] (12.08.2002)
  * A [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/critique.html Critique] of the schemata ( 8.10.2002)
  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/vsoorg.txt VSO registry description] : [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/schema/registry.xsd schema] - [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/schema/registry.html sample document] (30.07.2002)

=== Notes and Ramblings ===

  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/datamodel.pdf Notes from the December Workday] (24.01.2003)
  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/dreams/ Concepts for the VSO Architecture]
  * [http://vso.stanford.edu/2003/rnotes.html Rick's notes] (23.05.2002)
  * [wiki:Historical/KarenNotes Karen's notes] (23.05.2002)