Collaborative Page for SIA InterfaceThe Simple Image Access (SIA) interface defines a protocol for retrieving image data from a variety of multidimensional astronomical image/cube repositories through a uniform interface. The interface is meant to be reasonably simple to implement by service providers. A query defining a multi-parameter query is used to query for candidate images. The service returns a list of candidate datasets formatted as a VOTable. For each candidate image an access reference URL may be used to retrieve the image. Direct client-directed access to a remote image/cube dataset is also provided. Images may be returned in a variety of formats including FITS, other astronomical image formats, and various graphics formats. Referenced images are often computed on the fly, e.g., as cutouts from larger images.Current SIAV2 Working DraftThe SIAV2 working draft has been split into two closely linked documents, the SIA version 2.0 specification per se, and the Image data model it is based upon. This version of SIA, and the new Image data model, are fully multidimensional and capable of dealing with cube data. The 2013 SIAV2 working draft has been pretty much completely rewritten to make use of modern (draft) standards such as the ImageDM, DALI, and so on. The current (12Aug) draft is complete through the queryData request, although the query response section is still pretty rough. A key element which is not yet included in the draft is the accessData request, used to interactively slice/dice remote cubes. A preliminary description of the data access model behind accessData is given in the ImageDM working draft.Older drafts and Related Papers
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