Did we decide about keeping a VOTable option in search tools?

[raddick]

Hey @thakar and @mikear69 , I remember we were talking a bit ago about whether we would keep the option of returning search results as VOTable format. IIRC* we decided to keep web service support but remove the option from the tools. Do I remember correctly? Either way is OK with me, I just want to make sure we arrive at a definite decision.

Labeling this as a question for the moment; let's discuss here. If we decide to remove the VOTable radio button, I'll file a separate issue saying to do so.

*IIRC = If I remember correctly

[thakar]

Remind me what was the rationale for removing it from the interactive tools?

 Ani

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Jordan Raddick [email protected]
wrote:

Hey @thakar https://github.com/thakar and @mikear69
https://github.com/mikear69 , I remember we were talking a bit ago
about whether we would keep the option of returning search results as
VOTable format. IIRC* we decided to keep web service support but remove the
option from the tools. Do I remember correctly? Either way is OK with me, I
just want to make sure we arrive at a definite decision.

Labeling this as a question for the moment; let's discuss here. If we
decide to remove the VOTable radio button, I'll file a separate issue
saying to do so.

*IIRC = If I remember correctly

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[raddick]

Our sense was that VOTables were no longer used by astronomers outside of the IVOA tool developers community. We wanted to keep the back-end functionality for VOTable available as API(s) so that those IVOA-member-developed tools won't break. But we decided(?) to remove the VOTable radio button as unnecessary for end users running queries - particularly since we now offer results as JSON, which does the same thing and is much more utilized in the community.

[thakar]

For some reason I have no recollection of this. Maybe we should check with
someone like Tom McGlynn before we remove it?

   Ani

Aniruddha R. Thakar, Principal Research Scientist
Center for Astrophysical Sciences and
Institute for Data Intensive Engineering & Science (IDIES), JHU
3701 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218-2695
410-516-4850, [email protected], www.sdss.jhu.edu/~thakar

http://www.sdss.jhu.edu/%7Ethakar

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Jordan Raddick [email protected]
wrote:

Our sense was that VOTables were no longer used by astronomers outside of
the IVOA tool developers community. We wanted to keep the back-end
functionality for VOTable available as API(s) so that those
IVOA-member-developed tools won't break. But we decided(?) to remove the
VOTable radio button as unnecessary for end users running queries -
particularly since we now offer results as JSON, which does the same thing
and is much more utilized in the community.

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#155 (comment).

[raddick]

It may be that I am misremembering. @mikear69 , do you remember if we made a decision about dropping VOTable as an output option from SkyServer?