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In words, STIL's idea of what constitutes a table is something
which has the following:
- Some per-table metadata (parameters)
- A number of columns
- Some per-column metadata
- A number of rows, each containing one entry per column
This model is embodied in the
StarTable interface,
which is described in the next section.
It maps quite closely, though not exactly, onto the table model
embodied in the VOTable definition, which
itself owes a certain amount to FITS tables. This is not coincidence.
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STIL - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library
Starlink User Note252
STIL web page:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/
Author email:
m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk