[Go-essp-tech] publishing by realm

[Bob Drach]

Hi Luca,

I'm happy with the solution as well. The main downside, compared to  
publishing at the variable level, is that if new versions of specific  
files are published, it will be necessary to republishe more than  
just the modified files. However the publisher can be instructed to  
only rescan the files modified, and in the case where multiple  
variables are updated this scheme would actually require less  
republishing. In short, I think it's a workable solution.

Bob

On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Luca Cinquini wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 	I looked at the PCMDI site after you published by realm, and it  
> seems to me that this is a MUCH better presentation of the data to  
> the user. The search results are the right granularity (1825 total  
> CMIP3 datasets, 194 for a single model like CCSM) and the number of  
> files for each dataset, once you click on it, is still very  
> manageable - around 10 for a single CCSM/atmosphere dataset  
> (although this is likely to increase for CMIP5 runs I believe).
>
> Eric and I are working on harvesting the additional experiment and  
> realm information for the thredds catalogs, and expose them as  
> search facets. When this is done (by next week, hopefully), it  
> would be good to re-publish all these data, because I think it  
> would provide a good example on how users can easily find CMIP3  
> data by selecting one or more of model/realm/experiment/variable.
>
> In summary, I like it much better know than before...
>
> thanks, Luca