Re: [Plastic-devs] Docs moved

[John T. <jd...@ro...>]

R Holbrey wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, John Taylor wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I've taken the "agreed" Plastic messages and put them up onto the 
>> main site http://plastic.sourceforge.net/coremessages/html
>> leaving the wiki page for us to argue about new messages.  While I'm 
>> here I'd like to propose:
>>
>> ivo://votech.org/votable/selectColumns(id: string, cols: int[])
>>
>> In the case of something like VisIVO, this would suggest to VisIVO 
>> the columns in the table to use for visualisation (perhaps using the 
>> ordering to suggest their importance (ie the first 3 get mapped to 
>> spatial axes?).  In the case of my Anomaly Detector it's an 
>> instruction indicating which columns to run the algorithm on.  In 
>> both cases, the message could come from a data exploration tool such 
>> as Richard's Eirik.
>>
>> John
>
> eirik would also like to be able to suggest a tgable of such values, 
> so that it would be easy to suggest that column 1 has something in 
> common with columns 10 and 15.  This might even be a set of 
> covariances or mutual information figures, or should this be a (vo)table?
>
> Richard
>
Hi Richard - interesting- how would this information be consumed by 
third-party apps?  [Can you suggest any that could display it?].

J