Simple Spectral Access Protocol Version 1.04
Doug Tody, M. Dolensky, Jonathan C. McDowell, F. Bonnarel, Tamás Budavári, I. Busko, A. Micol, P. Osuna, Jesús J. Salgado, Petr Škoda, R. Thompson, F. Valdes, Data Access Layer Working Group · 2008
The Simple Spectral Access (SSA) Protocol (SSAP) defines a uniform interface to remotely discover and access one dimensional spectra SSA is a member of an integrated family of data access interfaces altogether comprising the Data Access Layer (DAL) of the IVOA. SSA is based on a more general data model capable of describing most tabular spectrophotometric data, including time series and spectral energy distributions (SEDs) as well as 1-D spectra; however the scope of the SSA interface as specified in this document is limited to simple 1-D spectra, including simple aggregations of 1-D spectra.