Dear all,
In myOcean poject, we are looking for a "light discovery interface" on
our data servers (THREDDS Data Server being the main software used for
data dissemination).
I am wondering if providing opensearch interface on THREDDS catalogs is
something which may be considered in future releases of THREDDS Data Server.
I have seen different documentations about software which provide
opensearch interface with THREDDS catalogue inputs :
GI-CAT :
http://essi-lab.eu/cgi-bin/twiki/view/GIcat/THREDDSGuide
A slide show about THREDDS+opensearch :
http://vimeo.com/30452893
An opensearch interface directly provided by THREDDS Data Server would
prevent data providers from installing and maintaining additional software.
Besides THREDDS provides metadata/search protocols which we could use :
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/reference/ncISO.html
But the iso19115 is not the kind of metadata service we are searching for.
An OGC/CSW with Dubin-core metadata may also be an interesting
alternative to opensearch.
Have you any update plans for this ncISO services ?
We might also use the THREDDS XML but an overall search interface on
which criteria could be applied could be interesting.
Thanks very much,
Thomas
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Thomas LOUBRIEU
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