The services that the IA2 will supply (by maintaining existing software or by implementing new tools) are:

• Filling the database with the observational logs;

• Filling the archive with housekeeping data in FITS format;

• Filling the archive with scientific data in FITS format;

• Maintaining the interfaces (Interface Control Documents - ICDs) with the data providers (telescopes and instruments);

• Providing standard quality control on the data, through procedures arranged with the data providers;

• Providing quality control of long period (trend analysis) on the data, through procedures arranged with the data providers; 

• Providing a "Name Server" to convert the name of an object in coordinates and vice versa; 

• Providing a "Data Organizer" to associate to any scientific exposure its “best” calibration files, through procedures arranged with the data providers and/or with the national grid for the photometric data (GriPho);

• Providing a conversion service among different systems of coordinates (through Web Services); 

• Providing tools to search the information in the DB through defined keys, on the base of parameters corresponding to the keywords of the headers FITS;

• Allowing data retrieval according to international standards (VOTables);

• Providing a Web based user interface;

• Providing a graphic utility for the visualization of the data extracted by the database;

• Providing an utility for the visualization of the observed data;

• Providing a management tool of the user’s requests to define the duration of each request, to define its priorities, to manage a queue of requests, and to notify the conclusion of the request to the user;

• Providing a pre-reduction of the data (if needed) using procedures provided by the GriPho collaboration;

• Distributing data to the users via the network;

• Distributing data to the users on optical support (CD or DVD);

• Maintaining the interfaces with the International Virtual Observatory;

• Coordinating with the Italian grid for the astronomical research (DRACO now VObs.it);
  

• Coordinating with the Italian grid for the photometric data (GriPho)

This list of services is a section of the IA2  Response document.