objectType Capability

a description of what the service does (in terms of context-specific behavior), and how to use it (in terms of an interface)

Members

name	type	mult	description
validationLevel	Validation	0 or more	A numeric grade describing the quality of the capability description and interface, when applicable, to be used to indicate the confidence an end-user can put in the resource as part of a VO application or research study. See VOResource:ValidationLevel for an explanation of the allowed levels.
description	ivoa:string	optional	A human-readable description of what this capability provides as part of the over-all service Use of this optional element is especially encouraged when this capability is non-standard and is one of several capabilities listed.
interface	Interface	0 or more	a description of how to call the service to access this capability Since the Interface type is abstract, one must describe the interface using a subclass of Interface, denoting it via xsi:type. Multiple occurences can describe different interfaces to the logically same capability, i.e. data or functionality. That is, the inputs accepted and the output provides should be logically the same. For example, a WebBrowser interface given in addition to a WebService interface would simply provide an interactive, human-targeted interface to the underlying WebService interface.
standardID	ivoa:anyURI		A URI identifier for a standard service. This provides a unique way to refer to a service specification standard, such as a Simple Image Access service. The use of an IVOA identifier here implies that a VOResource description of the standard is registered and accessible.

Containment

This is contained by Service, VOSIcap:capabilities