The SVO is a service first supported by the SOLARNET project, funded by the European Commission’s FP7 Capacities Programme under the Grant Agreement 312495. Then made operational thanks to the SOLARNET2 project, funded by the the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement 824135.
It's purpose is to collect metadata from as many solar observations as possible, especially those made thanks to the SOLARNET projects, in a common catalog and make them available to the scientific community.
A first prototype version was released in February 2016, and the operational version is available now at https://solarnet2.oma.be
The SVO code is split in several parts: