wiki:DetailedWorkNeeded

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Details on the work needed to finish the project

Using the summary list of jobs on ToDo, this page goes into more detail about the specific tasks that will need to be done.
Details about work that has been done so far are on WebQuery.
Names of people responsible for each task to be filled in.

mySQL database

  • Finalise the schema for the 70cm data - what data fields do we want in the table?
  • Use this to finalise the output from pvosummary
  • Use pvosummary to produce a .csv file, which then gets ingested into the database.
  • Fix up the existing tables, particularly the positions. Need to create new fields that hold the RA & DEC in decimal degrees.
  • Look at what needs to be done to manage proprietry access for timing data - survey data is presumably public.

Querying functionality

  • Implement the cone-search queries to work on all data, not just the 70cm data.
  • Allow other searches to be made on survey data: date-based search, [Any others?]
  • Register the conesearch web service with a VO registry (see notes on WebQuery).

Web page

  • Improve the look and feel of the main query page: use consistent style sheet with other ATNF archives, eg. ATOA
  • Allow searching to include one or all of "surveys", "timing", specific instruments, ...
    • Pull down menu: Timing, Search,... --> If Timing, a "Pulsar name" box appears.
  • Allow selection of fields to be returned?
  • Have link to a "README" or information page, explaining what the surveys etc are, and even what the different fields that get returned are.
  • Sort out security and proprietry access.
  • Make webpage live!