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IVOA Recommendation: IVOA Support Interfaces
Matthew Graham, Guy Rixon, Grid +1
This document describes the minimum interface that a (SOAP- or REST-based) web service requires to participate in the IVOA. Note that this is not required of standard VO services d…
IVOA Recommendation: An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors Version 1.1
Sébastien Derriere, Norman Gray, Robert Mann +7
This document describes the current understanding of the IVOA controlled vocabulary for describing astronomical data quantities, called Unified Content Descriptors (UCDs). The pres…
IVOA Recommendation: Maintenance of the list of UCD words Version 1.20
Nausicaa Delmotte, Sebastien Derriere, Norman Gray +8
According to what is stated in the IVOA Recommendation "An IVOA standard for Unified Content Descriptors", a procedural document should be created in order to maintain (add, change…
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: VOResource: an XML Encoding Schema for Resource Metadata Version 1.03
Raymond Plante, Kevin Benson, Matthew Graham +7
This document describes an XML encoding standard for IVOA Resource Metadata, referred to as VOResource. This schema is primarily intended to support interoperable registries used f…
IVOA Recommendation: IVOA Registry Interfaces Version 1.0
Kevin Benson, Ray Plante, Elizabeth Auden +9
Registries provide a mechanism with which VO applications can discover and select resources--e.g. data and services--that are relevant for a particular scientific problem. This spe…
IVOA Recommendation: Universal Worker Service Pattern Version 1.0
Paul Harrison, Guy Rixon
The Universal Worker Service (UWS) pattern defines how to manage asynchronous execution of jobs on a service. Any application of the pattern defines a family of related services wi…
IVOA Recommendation: IVOA Credential Delegation Protocol Version 1.0
Matthew Graham, Raymond Plante, Guy Rixon +1
The credential delegation protocol allows a client program to delegate a user's credentials to a service such that that service may make requests of other services in the name of t…
IVOA Recommendation: VOSpace specification Version 1.15
Matthew Graham, Dave Morris, Guy Rixon
VOSpace is the IVOA interface to distributed storage. This version extends the existing VOSpace 1.0 (SOAP-based) specification to support containers, links between individual VOSpa…
IVOA Recommendation: IVOA Single-Sign-On Profile: Authentication Mechanisms Version 1.01
Guy Rixon, Matthew Graham, Grid +1
Approved client-server authentication mechanisms are described for the IVOA single-sign-on profile: digital signatures (for SOAP services); TLS with passwords (for user sign-on poi…
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…