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-Related Working Drafts

TAP V0.41 - TAP Working Draft (2009-03-17)

TAP V0.4 - TAP Working Draft (February 2009)

PQL V0.1 - Proposed Parameterised Query Language Working Draft (February 2009)

DAL2 Architecture draft - Architecture and standard service profile for the DAL2 familiy of services (draft fall 2008)

TAP V0.31 - Current TAP Working Draft (November 2008)

TAP V0.31 Restructuring - Restructuring suggestions for TAP V0.31 draft

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 - 04 Dec 2008