28May2009

IVOAInteroperabilityMeeting-- Strasbourg
THE INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY ALLIANCE
NVORegistryCuration
andValidationTools
NVORegistryTeam:
RayPlante,GretchenGreene,
TheresaDower,MichaelPreciado,
MatthewGraham
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NVO/VAORegistryCuration
Broadvisionforregistrycuration:
Improvedpublishingprocess
Wizard-likepublishinginterfacetopromotebetterpublisherunderstanding,encourage
bettermetadata*
BetaXForms-basedinterfacebeingtested
Detectproblemsbeforepublishing
UseVOSItofetchinfoaboutstandardservices
Reduceamountthatmustbehand-entered
Recordvalidationatpublishingtime
ActiveratingofresourcesviavalidationLevel
Automatedevaluationofregistryrecords*
Automatedcompliancetestingofunderlyingservices*
On-goinghuman-drivenreviewofmetadatacontent
Automated&humancommunicationwithpublisher*
Recommendationsforimprovements
Pointerstotoolsanddocumentationthathelppublishers
Qualitymetricsshouldsetbyprojectandpublished
Usecasetestingofregistry
Arereasonableuserqueriesmatchingtheappropriateresources?
Feedbackintometrics,tipsforgoodmetadata
*Someprogressmade;developmentunderway
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validationLevel
Featureoftheregistryrecordformat(VOResource)
Definition:
Anumericgradedescribingthequalityoftheresourcedescription,
whenapplicable,tobeusedtoindicatetheconfidenceanend-user
canputintheresourceaspartofaVOapplicationorresearchstudy.
Values:
0 non-compliantrecord
1 syntacticallycompliantrecord
2 functionallycompliantresource(serviceiscompliant)
3 hasbeeninspectedbyahuman&judgedsemanticallycompliant
4 resourcedescriptionmeetsadditionalqualitycriteriasetbyhuman
inspector
Everyregistrycanassignitsownvaluesaccordingtolocalquality
metrics
UserscanusethevalidationLevel asconstraintonselecting
services
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ServiceValidaters
On-lineServiceValidaters
SCS:http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/dalvalidate/csvalidate.html
SIA:http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/dalvalidate/siavalidate.html
RegistryHarvestingInterface:
http://rofr.ivoa.net/regvalidate/regvalidate.html
Servicesbasedondalvalidate toolkit:
http://trac.us-vo.org/project/nvo/wiki/dalvalidate
Validaters planned:
SSA
RegistrySearchInterface
Basedonivoaregistry library:
http://trac.us-vo.org/project/nvo/wiki/IVOARegistry