Home for most documentation and discussion of VO interfaces to LSST data products. VO issues may also be discussed in specific areas of the system design where they are most relevant - e.g., VOEvent in the details of alert publication - but this page is intended to collect everything together.
References to IVOA standards and the U.S. and international VO organizations and processes
- IVOA home page | document repository
- Specific relevant standards - not meant to be a complete list or a statement that LSST will use the standard in its current or any form:
- VOEvent
- TAP - Table Access Protocol (see also UCD1+)
- ADQL - mandatory query language for TAP
- SODA - Server-side Operations for Data Access (e.g., cutout services)
- UWS - asynchronous job control model
- VOTable
- ObsCore - very basic observation data model (small subset of CAOM) - which includes ObsTAP (§4 of the standard)
- SIA - Simple Image Access
- Simple Cone Search
- MOC - Multi-Order Coverage Map
- HiPS - Hierarchical Progressive Survey
- VOSpace
- DataLink - Link to other resources
- Miscellaneous "VO services" that may be of interest:
- Filter profile service (at SVO) - see LSST query
- Footprint services (an NVO legacy)
- Filter profiles (an NVO legacy)
- Spherical geometry toolkit (an NVO legacy)
- IVOA process:
- Executive Committee meetings
- InterOp meetings: June 2015
Internal working documents
- Collection of VO related thoughts and issues (Unknown User (xiuqin) et al., Jan. 2015) - focuses on protocol details
- LSST VO strategy considerations (Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, May 2015) - high-level concerns
- VOEvent notes (Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, Apr 2015) - link farm to other documentation
- Mario Juric presentation to IVOA InterOp, 2013