Beginning at 8:00 Saturday, January 24, 2026 PST CANFAR and CADC services may experience temporary outages or interruptions due to planned maintenance. The maintenance window will last at least 24 hours, ending Sunday, January 25 PST.

Web Services

API Description
ac
  • Access Control
  • Web service for managing User and Group access
ams
  • Archive Metadata Service
  • CAOM metadata repository with authenticated TAP query capabilities to support metadata curation. This service is not intended for general use.
arc
  • Distributed storage access
argus
  • Table Access Protocol
  • query CADC data using the CAOM TAP web service
caom2ops (datalink)
  • IVOA DataLink service
  • CAOM-2 downloadable links and related resources for artifacts in a plane
caom2ops (metadata)
  • CAOM-2 metadata for a single CAOM2 observation
caom2ops (pkg)
  • CAOM-2 package (tar) with all artifacts of a single plane
caom2ops (soda)
  • IVOA SODA service
  • CAOM-2 cutouts on artifacts (files)
cred
  • Credential delegation and generation
data
  • Primary interface for storage and retrieval of CADC telescope archive files
doi
  • generation of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for publication data sets
sia
  • IVOS Simple Image Access
  • sia queries for CAOM-2
vault
  • distributed storage access
youcat
  • User Catalogue service
  • database-as-a-service to create, query, and share tables
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