Showing posts with label DPAS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DPAS. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Work on the DPAS

We are experimenting with the way that the Data Provider Access Service (DPAS) access the CDAW and you may experience problems with some instruments.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Data Provider Access Service

The Data Provider Access Service provides integrated access to observations from a number of data archives and observatories. To date the DPAS supports access to more than 150 instruments from more than 40 observatories.

The DPAS is intended to isolate the user from the foibles of the providers and supports many access protocols, including http, ftp, Web Services, etc.

To use the DPAS select the time range of interest and one of more instruments and then press "Search". The results can be viewed as a Web-based table or viewed or downloaded as a VOTable file.

Questions: Is the DPAS working in the way that you expect? Does the list of instruments that it finds for the time interval you selected meet your expectations? If there are any problems, please let us know.