[Go-essp-tech] [metafor] Minutes: 1/6/10 Output Variable Telecon

[Bob Drach]

Hans, Mark,

I'll be happy to help out if you have questions about understanding  
or accessing the node database. Be aware that the node database  
schema is evolving somewhat to handle addition of dataset and file  
versions. Don't hardwire anything to the existing schema quite yet.

Bob

On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Hans Ramthun wrote:

> Hallo Mark,
>
> Yes of course there are several points of collaboration. I'm happy not
> to dig alone through the mountain...
>
> I published my very first steps in the Metafor svn:
> http://*metaforclimate.eu/trac/browser/cimTOOLS/branches/ESG-DB- 
> access-TEST
> The first test was with the python library 'psycopg2'.
>
> Cheers
> Hans
>
>
> Mark Morgan wrote:
>> Hans
>>
>> Here at IPSL we are in the process of beginning to do exactly the  
>> same
>> thing: coding a python library to interface with the ESG publisher
>> postgres database in order to act as a prelimnary step in the Metafor
>> CIM publishing process.
>>
>> Perhaps this can be a point of collaboration either in the  
>> development
>> or testing (or both)?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Hans Ramthun wrote:
>>> Hallo,
>>>
>>> Bryan Lawrence wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> Right now, we would have to parse the thredds catalog as you  
>>>>> say to
>>>>> get the list of variables.  No code exists to convert the data
>>>>> collection names into a list of variable names.  Code does  
>>>>> exist to
>>>>> create the list of data collections.
>>>>>
>>>> I think we all need a bit of code for that. We should write it
>>>> standalone so we can all use the logic if not the code ...
>>>> hopefully this is on the agenda for Hans and/or Stephen.
>>>>
>>> On my agenda is to access the ESG publisher postgres database with
>>> SQLAlchemy and to retrieve the appropriate data to create CIMRecords
>>> (dataObject). This should led to a stand alone python program. I  
>>> think
>>> Stephen wants to go the same way.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Bryan
>>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Hans
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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