[MOBY-dev] ServiceProvider URL and Logo

[Andreas Groscurth]

Hi,

I would like to address an issue we had discussed a little at the meeting in 
Vancouver, namely to enable the possibility for service providers to add 
their url (to their homepage) and a logo.
This was based on the suggestions from the Tigr workshop, where the people 
wanted to have that, so if one is aggregating their service, is possible to 
link to the origin of the service.

Actually there are two ways to do so (in my opinion):

1. Add the url to the homepage and the url to a logo into the service notes 
for each service result

2. Give the opportunity to enter this information while registering a service


In case of 1. there are no changes needed in the API (neither perl nor java), 
if somewant wants to use this information they have to parse it from the 
service notes.

in case of 2. the api has to change (and also all registration clients and 
probably the database....) to  have methods to access these information and 
to enter or store them in the service objects (or however this is done with 
perl services)

Intuitively - from a developer - I would suggest 2. because it sounds much 
more clearer to access and to store this information. Putting it into the 
service notes sounds more like a workaround ('ah... everything else is put 
there') - are there any other information in there ? how it is represented 
there ? and so on.. but I think I can see that point 1 is easier and sooner 
to use....

But I'm open for discussion. I can live with all ways :-)

Best
Andreas