The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) radio interferometer has started Early Science observations, providing a copious stream of new, high-quality astronomical datasets of unpreceden- ted sensitivity and resolution. In this talk we will present how existing Virtual Observatory (VO) technologies and software packages, together with Web 2.0 techniques, were leveraged to provide scientists with the ALMA Science Archive (ASA): an easy to use, multi-parameter discovery tool for ALMA data, ultimately integrated with the VO. We will also show the advantages of this ap- proach, which allowed for faster software development, and a decoupling of the ALMA Front-end Archive (AFA), and the ASA.
Presented in the Instrumentation & Computing sessions of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), on July 9th, 2012.