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

[Mattmann, Chris A (388J)]

Guys you may want to check out the work in ESIP going on with the Federated Search folks:

http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/How-To_Guide_for_Implementing_ESIP_Federated_Search_Servers

Just passing it along.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Chris

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