Internal Model for FacilityList

The list-parsing functions are defined in conf/parsers.py. Each function should return a dictionary following the specification described below.

The dictionary is composed of pairs of (key, value) defined as follows:

key is composed of a short authority name acting as a name space (e.g., aas for the AAS list), followed by an ID derived from the current list, joined with a :, for instance: aas:SORCE.
value is a dictionnary object comforing with the models/facility.json JSON schema.

Individual Facility elements

The Observatory descriptor follows the model described in the models/facility.json JSON schema.

The expected properties are:

alternateName: (list) A list of all alternate names dictionaries (see below)
facilityType: (str) A string containing either spacecraftor observatory
location: (dict) A dictionary containing continent, country, place and/or coordinates. The coordinates property is a dictionary with lat (latitude), lon (longitude), alt (altitude), sin (ρ sin(φ) parallax coordinate), cos (ρ cos(φ) parallax coordinate) and/or tz (time zone) properties.
measurementType: (list) A list of string items (following IVOA UCD specification).
targetList: (list) A list of string items with target names.
facilityGroup: (str) A named group to which the Facility belongs to.
instrumentList: (list) A list of string items with instrument names.
referenceURL: (str) A list of string items containing URL to a reference website(s) or documentation.
launchDate: (str) A string containing the launch date for a spacecraft.

Each alternateName object contins the following attributes:

Note the name and id are considered as alternate names of the same Facility.