Collaborative Page for the TAP Interface

The Table Access Protocol (TAP) is a second generation DAL interface being developed to provide a general access mechanism for tabular data, including but not limited to astronomical catalogs. TAP is part of the DAL family of data access interfaces.

TAP Working Drafts

TAP V0.3 - Current TAP Working Draft (October 2008)

Older Documents

TAP/Param V0.2 - TAP/Param draft (includes TAP/Param functionality). This is based upon the discussions from the tiger team meeting held at JHU last November (JHU November 2007), as well as follow-on discussions regarding VOSpace integration, multi-region queries, and other topics.

TAP/QL V0.1 - TAP/QL Draft document focused on processing ADQL queries, synchronous and asynchronous execution, integration with other IVOA services and metadata provision using VOSI constructs.

TAP related IVOA Notes

• TAP-draft.pdf (IVOA Note Authors: Aurélien Stébé, Kona Andrews, Guy Rixon, Iñaki Ortiz)
• TAP-Analysis.pdf (IVOA Note Author: D.Tody)

TAP Meetings

• TAP planning meeting (JHU November 2007).
• TAP pages from IVOA Trieste (Trieste May 2008).

-- KeithNoddle - 24 October 2008

• TAP-QL-0.1.pdf: