Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of NewDataProvider

Timestamp:

07/07/05 09:34:07 (19 years ago)

Author:

joe

Comment:

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NewDataProvider

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-There are three major steps to make your data available to the VSO:
+There are four major steps to make your data available to the VSO:
 
+  1. Place your data online or install a staging mechanism to distribute data to remote users.
   1. Describe your holdings in terms that the VSO can understand.
   1. Create a SOAP Web Service to translate VSO requests to terms suitable for your archive.
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 Assistance is available for the entire process.  We suggest that you [wiki:ContactUs Contact Us], as we may know other people who are working on making the same data available.
 
+As an optional step, more users have found it beneficial to browse through quicklook or similar browse products in their attempts
+to determine which data products are of interest to them.  If appropriate to describe your data set, both lower-resolution thumbnails (approx. 128x128 pixels) and higher
+resolution images that can be displayed by web browsers (GIF, JPEG, PNG) are appreciated.  We may be able to provide computing resources for generating these images.
+
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+== Place your data online or install a staging mechanism to distribute data to remote users. ==
+
+Your data must be readable by the world in order for it to be distributed via the VSO.
+
+It can be made available as individual data products through FTP or HTTP, or through some more complicated asyncronous packaging system.
+
+If your data is already on-line, accessible by either anonymous FTP or HTTP, and has sufficent metadata in the directory structure and
+filenames, then the VSO can set up a proxy service on one of our servers.  [wiki:ContactUs Contact the VSO] for assistance in setting this up.
+
 
 == Describe your holdings in terms that the VSO can understand. ==