Simple Spectral Access use cases

[Doug Tody]

At the IVOA meeting in Cambridge a few weeks ago, one of the highest
priority projects identified for the DAL working group was to define a
"simple spectral access" protocol for accessing 1D spectra and SEDs.

To help plan this effort it would help to get a better idea of how such an
interface would initially be used.  If you think you or your institution
might provide 1D spectral data or SEDs to the VO, or might provide software
to use such data provided by the VO (e.g., as an addition to an existing
VO demo or by interfacing some analysis application), please fill in the
following form and return it to dal at ivoa.net.  Note doing so is not a
committment to actually do any work!  We mainly just want to get a better
idea of what spectral data collections are out there, to help design the
spectral data interface.  Thanks very much for your help with this.

Doug Tody (dtody at nrao.edu), Markus Dolensky (Markus.Dolensky at eso.org)


Simple Spectral Access Use Cases

Data Providers (e.g., data centers, archives)

    - Data provider name

    - Spectral data collections from this source

    - Characteristics of data (number of spectra, size, irregularly sampled,
      nonsampled (as in HE/UV) multiple flux arrays, variance arrays, etc.)

    - Current data storage format

    - Is the data available online?

    - Other comments


Data Consumers (e.g., analysis packages, e.g., VO demonstrations that might
want to add the ability to fetch and display a spectrum)

    - Name of application, package, demo, etc.

    - Summarize capabilities of software

    - Desired characteristics of input data

    - Desired input data format or formats (e.g., graphics, FITS, XML)

    - Other comments


General Comments