[Go-essp-tech] [ESGF-Search] Opensearch and XML representation of a search query

[stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk]

In off-list discussions about QC we've found we need to attach QC documents to data at the simulation level.  This would seem to be semantically similar to selecting all datasets for a given activity/product/institute/model/experiment which could be viewed as a query.

Unfortunately I wasn't on the Search API call yesterday but I hear OpenSearch has been floated as an implementation-neutral interface.  What about using OpenSearch's XML Query syntax for representing this?  E.g.


<Query xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/openseaerch/1.1/"

      xmlns:esgf="http://esgf.org/ns/search/"

      role="request"

       esgf:activity="cmip5"

      esgf:product="output"

      esgf:institute="MTEST"

      esgf:model="ECHAM6-MPIOM-TR"

      esgf:experiment="amip"/>

Cheers,
Stephen.

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Stephen Pascoe  +44 (0)1235 445980
Centre of Environmental Data Archival
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK


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