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.
Work on the TAP VOResource extension schema for registering TAP service (
TAPRegExt, recommendation as of 27 August 2012) is also summarized
below.
Current TAP Recommendation
As of 27 March 2010 TAP-1.0 is an
IVOA Recommendation.
TAP-1.0-Next page to collect proposed features and notes while developing the next revision of the specification.
TAP-1_0-Errata page, instead, collects the Errata status for this specific version of the recommendation.
TAP-1.1 Working Draft
Compiled PDF
Volute SVN document source
The TAP-1.1 document source (uses
ivoatex) can be found in the
volute repo (projects/dal/TAP), e.g. svn checkout
https://volute.g-vo.org/svn/trunk/projects/dal/TAP
- TAP-1.1 (DAL internal draft, 2015-05-12): revision 2953
TAP RFC pages
TAP-Related Working Drafts
PQL V0.2 - Current
PQL (Parameter Query) Working Draft (2009-05-20)
Earlier TAP working documents
TAP V1.0 - TAP Working Draft (2009-06-07)
TAP V0.5 - TAP Working Draft (2009-05-16)
TAP V0.42 - TAP Working Draft (2009-04-20)
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 - TAP Working Draft following Baltimore interop (November 2008)
TAP V0.31 Restructuring - Restructuring suggestions for TAP V0.31 draft
TAP V0.3 - TAP Draft as presented at Baltimore Interop
Other Related Documents
Scope and Role of the TAP Parameter Query (May 2009)
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 in November 2007 (
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 Software
Server-side Tools
Client-side Tools
Registering TAP Services
A VOResource extension schema for registering TAP services is now in development. The current spec only specifies the standardID to use in an otherwise generic
<capability>
element in the resource record; however, a specialized extension schema will allow for more specific descriptions of how a TAP instance supports the TAP standard; this includes flags that indicate support for
ObsCore. Ideas for the needed metadata are being gathered in the
TAPRegExt page.
Bottom line: Register your TAP service today, even without
TAPRegExt, by using a capability like
<capability standardID="ivo://ivoa.net/std/TAP" xsi:type="tr:TableAccess">
<interface role="std" xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP">
<accessURL use="base">YOUR URL HERE</accessURL>
</interface>
</capability>
TAP related IVOA Notes
TAP Meetings
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KeithNoddle - 04 Dec 2008