From d30376dd77fcad622a81e2ad35c590635fbb973c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Butora <robert.butora@inaf.it>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 11:45:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixes typo and shortens text

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 README.md | 11 +++++------
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 ## vlkb-siav2
 
-is a web-application to discover astronomical data (supports FITS-files) and described in a [VO ObsTAP table](https://ivoa.net/documents/ObsCore).
+is a web-application to discover astronomical data (FITS-files) and described in a [VO ObsTAP table](https://ivoa.net/documents/ObsCore).
 It implements IVOA recommendation [SIA version 2](https://ivoa.net/documents/SIA) with optional VLKB-specific features:
 
 - provides overlap code
@@ -12,15 +12,14 @@ When used with [**vlkb-soda**](https://ict.inaf.it/gitlab/ViaLactea/vlkb-soda) t
 
 The service consists of **vlkb-siav2** web-application and associated **vlkb-obscore** command line tool to create the ObsTAP table from FITS-files headers.
 
-The service may be launched by docker compose with [compose.yaml](./docker/example-compose.yaml). The database service is not needed, running database instance may de set directly by DB_URI parameters. Additionaly choose context root and point to the data access service.
-To check the service status access the availability endpoint:
+The service may be launched by docker compose with [compose.yaml](./docker/example-compose.yaml). The local database service is optional. Instead remote database instance may de set in DB_URI parameter. For service status check, access the availability endpoint:
 
 ```bash
 curl --get http://localhost:8004/vlkb/datasets/availability
 ```
 
 
-## Endpoints
+## End-points
 
 - **availability** is a [VOSI](https://ivoa.net/documents/VOSI/20170524/REC-VOSI-1.1.html) end-point and returns information whether the service is active
 - **capabilities** is a [VOSI](https://ivoa.net/documents/VOSI/20170524/REC-VOSI-1.1.html) end-point which describes service' functions and paramters
@@ -28,14 +27,14 @@ curl --get http://localhost:8004/vlkb/datasets/availability
 
 ## Docker image
 
-The vlkb-siav2 is available from the gitlab repositary of this project. 
+The vlkb-siav2 is available from the gitlab repository of this project. 
 
 Configuration parameters are set by these docker environment variables:
 
 
 | parameter | description  |
 |---------|--------------|
-| **DISCOVERY_CONTEXT_ROOT** | root of the vlkb-soda end-points |
+| **DISCOVERY_CONTEXT_ROOT** | root of the end-points |
 | **DB_URI** | DB which holds ObsTAP table |
 | **DB_USERNAME** | DB user which has access to ObsTAP |
 | **DB_PASSWORD** | and user's password |
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