From b90a380e31e757c3158a2f2199c43af481b94e37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Van Horn Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 05:03:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs(README): drop dead VAO website link, point at Wayback snapshot (#748) www.usvao.org now redirects to a domain-parking page (the project website was decommissioned). The README's inline reference '(VAO, www.usvao.org)' takes users from a Python library README to a sales page that fingerprints visitors, which is the opposite of useful. Drop the inline URL from the parenthetical and add a one-line note that points at the 2019-01-06 Wayback snapshot so the historical project page stays reachable for anyone tracing the package's origins. --- README.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 11da5704..515e4ccb 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -21,8 +21,10 @@ PyVO is a package providing access to remote data and services of the Virtual observatory (VO) using Python. Its development was launched by the NSF/NASA-funded Virtual Astronomical -Observatory (VAO, www.usvao.org) project (formerly under the name -VAOpy) as part of its initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop. +Observatory (VAO) project (formerly under the name VAOpy) as part of its +initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop. The VAO website has since +gone offline; an archived snapshot is available at +https://web.archive.org/web/20190106160759/http://usvao.org/. Its goal is to allow astronomers and tool developers to access data and services from remote archives and other web resources. It takes advantage of VO standards to give access to thousands of catalogs,