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Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
SDSS DR8 - Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8
Short name: SDSS DR8
IVOA Identifier: ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr8-dsaPublisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh[+][Pub. ID]
More Info: http://www.sdss.org/dr8/
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.		 Status: active
Registered: 2011 Oct 27 17:15:02Z
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Description


This is an AstroGrid Dataset Access installation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU), University of Edinburgh. WFAU would like to thank John Hopkins University and the University of Chicago for permission to host the data.

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[+] About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource
[+] Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.
[+] What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.
[+] Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Available Service Interfaces

[+] Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

[+] Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

[+] Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.
[+] Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.
[+] VOSI CapabilitiesXX

This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns the detailed capabilities of the main IVOA standard service.

[+] Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.
[+] VOSI AvailabilityXX

This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns information about the availability and uptime of the main IVOA standard service.

[+] Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.
[+] Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.
[+] Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute
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