From b3f58f2fa4f9d16a2344a41d8b7ce31c6cc78e26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Butora <robert.butora@inaf.it>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 16:06:51 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] README: adds a list of extra VLKB-features over standard
 SIAv2

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 README.md | 10 +++++++---
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 ## vlkb-search
 
-is a web-application to discover astronomical data stored in FITS-files and describe in a VO ObsCore table.
-It consists of
+is a web-application to discover astronomical data stored in FITS-files and described in a VO ObsCore table.
+It implements the SIA version 2, IVOA recommendation (https://ivoa.net/documents/SIA/20151223/) with optional VLKB-specific features:
 
-- **vlkb-search** web-application and associated **vlkb-obscore** command line tool to create the VO ObsCore
+- the filtering paramters (POS, BAND) can be given in GALACTIC and VELO-LSRK-km/s coordinates systems
+- handles addtional metadata about the surveys (name, species, transformation)
+- VOTable response includes composed URLs for file download, file-cutout and files-demosaic services
+
+The service consists of **vlkb-search** web-application and associated **vlkb-obscore** command line tool to create the VO ObsCore
 table from FITS-files.
 
 The vlkb-obscore cli is available from https://ict.inaf.it/gitlab/butora/vlkb-datasets .
-- 
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