Have: An idea of the kind of data I am interested in.

Want: To find out what kind of data is available.

Enter some keywords in the registry and take a look at what
results come back.  Be more specific if you get too many results
or try alternative words if you are not seeing what you expect.

Want: To browse resources which match the data.

Find out some of the available datasets and use the SearchMe
to browse through them.

Have: Name of a table

Want: To understand what the table is about or where to find it

Enter the name of the table in the registry and view the descrition and characteristic
of the table there.

Want: To display the table

Enter the name of the table in the registry and get a list of matching
results.  Find the one you are interested in if there are multiple hits.
If you see a SearchIt option, click on that and do an all-sky search on
the results.

Want: To find the brightest, most recent, biggest, ... entries in the table

Enter the name of the table in the registry and get a list of matching
results.  Find the one you are interested in if there are multiple hits.
If you see a SearchIt option, click on that and do an all-sky search on
the results.   Enter your filter criteria in the filter box and hit return.

Have: A list of objects.

Want: To convert the list to standard VO Formats.

You can try either the unsupervised on interactive table converters. 
In the unsupervised version, you table will be loaded and converted
and errors reported back to you.  With the supervised version, you will
guide the program in translating the table.

Want: To find other tables that match my list.

First convert to standard VO format as needed and then send the result
to the inventory service. 

Want: To create augment my table with data from matching resources including
computed columns.

You may first want to check out the inventory service to see which resources
will match your input table.  Select those resources and send them to VIM.
Within VIM upload your original table.  VIM will allow you to cross-correlate
with each of the resources, merge the results into a single table, and create
columns based upon arithmetic combinations of existing columns.  You
can also filter the table at any time.

Alternatively you can build up the table in the inventory service alone, but
will not be able to manipulate it or create synthetic columns.

Want: A set of images around that position

You can try this in VIM or you can use the VOClient tool to download the
images in a comman-line environment.

Have: A single source or position

Want: To know everything about that position.

Use the DataScope tool to download all the VO can find out and browse the results.

Want: To know what datasets include that position.

Just enter the position in the inventory service.