Most major scientific results produced by ground-based gamma-ray telescopes in the last 30
years have been obtained by expert members of the collaborations operating these …

The table access protocol (TAP) defines a service protocol for accessing general table data,
including astronomical catalogs as well as general database tables. Access is provided for …

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 …

This document presents HiPS, a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and access
of sky survey data. The system is based on hierarchical tiling of sky regions at finer and finer …

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 …

Abstract The Simple Image Access protocol (SIA) provides capabilities for the discovery,
description, access, and retrieval of multi-dimensional image datasets, including 2-D images …

This document describes how provenance information can be modeled, stored and
exchanged within the astronomical community in a standardized way. We follow the …

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 …

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 …

This document describes the Server-side Operations for Data Access (SODA) web service
capability. SODA is a low-level data access capability or server side data processing that …