The NOAO Data Lab will allow users to efficiently utilize catalogs of billions of objects,
augment traditional telescope imaging and spectral data with external archive holdings …

Abstract The Data Center Helper Suite DaCHS is an integrated publication package for
building VO and Web services, supporting the entire workflow from ingestion to data …

This document describes the linking of data discovery metadata to access to the data itself,
further detailed metadata, related resources, and to services that perform operations on the …

VAMDC bridged the gap between atomic and molecular (A&M) producers and users through
providing an interoperable e-infrastructure connecting A&M databases, as well as tools to …

This note describes the technical architecture of the International Virtual Observatory
Alliance (IVOA). The description is decomposed into three levels. Level 0 is a general, high …

Registries provide a mechanism with which VO applications can discover and select
resources-first and foremost data and services-that are relevant for a particular scientific …

VODataService refers to an XML encoding standard for a specialized extension of the IVOA
Resource Metadata that is useful for describing data collections and the services that access …

This document describes an XML encoding standard for metadata about IVOA standards
themselves, referred to as StandardsRegExt. It is intended to allow for the discovery of a …

An IVOA Identifier is a globally unique name for a resource within the Virtual Observatory.
This name can be used to retrieve a unique description of the resource from an IVOA …

This document describes an XML encoding standard for metadata about services
implementing the table access protocol TAP (Dowler et al. 2010), referred to as TAPRegExt …