Recommended reading for tutorial sessions

Here you will find links to relevant information for the workshop tutorials and the VO in general.
You do not have to read all of them in full to follow the tutorials, but you can refer to them at a latter stage for further information about the VO.

The IVOA and Euro-VO

• The IVOA main web site
• The IVOA TWiki web site
• The IVOA mailing list forums
• The IVOA latest newsletter

• The Euro-VO main web site
• The Euro-VO AIDA web site
• The Euro-VO mailing list
• The Euro-VO registry

The IVOA documents and standards

• The IVOA documents main page

The most relevant to the workshop tutorials :

• Simple Cone Search
• Simple Image Access Protocol
• Simple Spectral Access Protocol
• Table Access Protocol
• Registry Resource Metadata
• Unified Content Descriptors
• Astronomical Data Query Language
• VOTable Format