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:
- IVOA process:
Internal working documents
Child page catalog: