# Interfacing the CDMS via VAMDC

As of 2016, February 24th, the Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy (CDMS) is in the process of moving its database to the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC). For external users (like LINEDB programmers and users), this implies several changes exposed hereafter.

Subsections

- Changes for end-users
- Queries
- Parsing
  - Molecule description
  - Radiative transition description