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Describing Simple Data Access Services
Version 1.2

IVOA Proposed Recommendation 31 January 2022

Interest/Working Group:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaResReg
Author(s):
Raymond Plante, Markus Demleitner, Jesus Salgado, Paul Harrison, Doug Tody
Editor(s):
Markus Demleitner

Abstract

An application that queries or consumes descriptions of VO resources must be able to recognize a resource’s support for standard IVOA protocols. This specification describes how to describe a service that supports any of the four typed data access protocols – Simple Cone Search (SCS), Simple Image Access (SIA), Simple Spectral Access (SSA), Simple Line Access (SLA) – using the VOResource XML encoding standard. A key part of this specification is the set of VOResource XML extension schemas that define new metadata that are specific to those protocols. This document describes rules for describing such services within the context of IVOA Registries and data discovery as well as the VO Support Interfaces (VOSI) and service self-description. In particular, this document spells out the essential mark-up needed to identify support for a standard protocol and the base URL required to access the interface that supports that protocol.

Status of this document

This is an IVOA Proposed Recommendation made available for public review.
It is appropriate to reference this document only as a recommended standard that is under review and which may be changed before it is accepted as a full recommendation.



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