Publications (15)
IVOA recommendation: IVOA DataLink
Patrick Dowler, François Bonnarel, Laurent Michel +1
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 o…
Building an interoperable, distributed storage and authorization system
Sara Bertocco, Brjan Major, Patrick Dowler +3
A joint project between the Canadian Astronomy Data Center of the National Research Council Canada, and the italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica-Osservatorio Astronomico di Tr…
Interoperable geographically distributed astronomical infrastructures: technical solutions
Sara Bertocco, Brian Major, Patrick Dowler +3
The increase of astronomical data produced by a new generation of observational tools poses the need to distribute data and to bring computation close to the data. Trying to answer…
IVOA Recommendation: VODataService: a VOResource Schema Extension for Describing Collections and Services Version 1.1
Raymond Plante, Aurélien Stébé, Kevin Benson +7
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 acce…
IVOA Recommendation: Table Access Protocol Version 1.0
Patrick Dowler, Guy Rixon, Doug Tody
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…
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance in 2018
Mark G. Allen, Patrick Dowler, Janet D. Evans +2
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) held its bi-annual Interoperability Meeting over two and half days prior to the ADASS 2018 conference. We provide a brief repo…
IVOA Data Access Layer: Goals, Achievements and Current Trends
François Bonnarel, Patrick Dowler, Keith Noddle +1
The IVOA Data Access Layer (DAL) working group was created in 2002 to define protocols to homogenize data discovery, data description, data retrieval, and data access processes. We…
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance in 2019
Mark A. Allen, Patrick Dowler, Janet D. Evans +5
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) held its bi-annual Interoperability Meetings in May 2019, and in October 2019 following the ADASS XXIX conference. We provide…
IVOA Recommendation: TAPRegExt: a VOResource Schema Extension for Describing TAP Services
Markus Demleitner, Patrick Dowler, Ray Plante +2
This document describes an XML encoding standard for metadata about services implementing the table access protocol TAP [TAP], referred to as TAPRegExt. Instance documents are part…
IVOA Simple Image Access
Patrick Dowler, Doug Tody, François Bonnarel
The Simple Image Access protocol (SIA) provides capabilities for the discovery, description, access, and retrieval of multi-dimensional image datasets, including 2-D images as well…
IVOA Recommendation: Observation Data Model Core Components and its Implementation in the Table Access Protocol Version 1.0
Mireille Louys, Francois Bonnarel, David Schade +10
This document defines the core components of the Observation data model that are necessary to perform data discovery when querying data centers for observations of interest. It exp…
IVOA Recommendation: DALI: Data Access Layer Interface Version 1.0
Patrick Dowler, Markus Demleitner, Mark Taylor +1
This document describes the Data Access Layer Interface (DALI). DALI defines the base web service interface common to all Data Access Layer (DAL) services. This standard defines th…
Insights from a 30-Year international Partnership on Astronomical Archives
David R. Rodriguez, Maria Arevalo, Patrick Dowler +3
In an era where astronomical data is expanding at an unprecedented rate, the importance of data sharing and accessibility among astronomy archives cannot be overstated. Since the 1…
IVOA Recommendation: Server-side Operations for Data Access
François Bonnarel, Markus Demleitner, Patrick Dowler +2
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 can…
Observatory/data centre partnerships and the VO-centric archive: The JCMT Science Archive experience
Frossie Economou, Severin Gaudet, Tim Jenness +10
We present, as a case study, a description of the partnership between an observatory (JCMT) and a data centre (CADC) that led to the development of the JCMT Science Archive (JSA).…