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The following are various historical documents, to help in understanding the development of the VSO, and may be useful to review some time in the future, to mine for ideas for new features.

From Stanford VSO Website, circa 2003:

Samples & Surveys

• ​Existing Services - samples of existing search service pages and query results presentation from the testbed archives. (7.05.2004)
• ​Data Integration - research in the area of data integration. (7.02.2003)
• ​XML Technology (7.02.2003)

Interface Samples

• ​Point of Entry - a sample entry point to VSO with generalized queries (implemented to varying extents) (7.05.2004)
• ​MDI Search by Observable - an implementation of a search using the MDI schema and translation table (7.05.2004)
• ​Graphical display of search results (time intervals) - java charting applets

XML Schemata

• Frank's 1st cut at a ​XML Schema for Solar Data Description
• MDI Schemata
  • ​version 1 - ​sample document (9.08.2002)
  • ​version 2 - ​sample document (12.08.2002)
• A ​Critique of the schemata ( 8.10.2002)
• ​VSO registry description : ​schema - ​sample document (30.07.2002)

Notes and Ramblings

• ​Notes from the December Workday (24.01.2003)
• ​Concepts for the VSO Architecture
• ​Rick's notes (23.05.2002)
• Karen's notes (23.05.2002)