Collaborative Page for SSA Interface

The Simple Spectral Access interface (SSA) defines a uniform interface to 1D spectra, time series, and SEDs. It shares many similarities with the Simple Image Access (SIA) and Simple Cone Search (SCS) specifications.

• Latest draft of the SSA query interface (V0.95 WD)
• Latest draft of the Spectral data model (V0.96d WD) (V0.97 WD)

- DougTody September 2005

Related Material

• Allen, M., Boch, T., 2003, Plotting SEDs in the AVO prototype: Catalog Requirements, Conventions and Conversions, http://www.euro-vo.org/internal/Avo/WorkPackageTwoTwo/SEDs_in_AVO.pdf
• Berners-Lee et al. 1994, Uniform Resource Locators (URL), IETF RFC 1738, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
• Bonnarel, F. et al., 2004, Proposal for an evolution of the SIA protocol V1.00, http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/SIAPEvol.html
• Bradner et al. 1997, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, IETF RFC 2119, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
• Bunclark, P., Rots, A. 1996, Precise re-definition of DATE-OBS Keyword encompassing the millennium, http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/documents/standards/year2000.txt
• Derriere, S., Preite Martinez, A., Williams, R. 2004, Work in progress: UCD (Unified Content Descriptor) - moving to UCD1+, http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/PR/UCD/UCD-20041026.html
• Dolensky, M., Tody, D., 2004, Survey among Spectral Data Providers and Consumers, ASP Conf. Ser., 314, 338, (see topic SsaSurvey)
• McDowell, J. et al. 2004, IVOA SED Data Model
• Ochsenbein, F. et al., 2004, VOTable Format Definition V1.1, http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/REC/VOTable/VOTable-20040811.html
• Osuna, P., Salgado, J. 2004, Simple Spectral Access for ISO data V1.0, http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/SADimEq.html
• Rots, A., Space-Time Coordinate Metadata for the Virtual Observatory V1.10, http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/STC.html
• Tody, D., Plante, R. 2004, Simple Image Access Specification V1.0, http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/WD/SIA/sia-20040524.html
• Valdes, F. 2003, A Virtual Observatory Data Model, http://iraf.noao.edu/projects/vo/dal/datamodel.html