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

[Rich Signell]

Go-essp-tech folks,

Just FYI, in the NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System Modeling
Testbed, we are harvesting ncISO metadata from THREDDS data servers
with GI-CAT <http://zeus.pin.unifi.it/cgi-bin/twiki/view/GIcat/GIcatDocumentation>
and then query GI-CAT's metadata database using both OpenSearch and
CSW.    For example Matlab folks use a function called opensearch.m to
perform a geospatial, temporal and free-text search, returning OPeNDAP
URLS that they can then start processing.

-Rich

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM,  <stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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