Hi Tennessee,
I assume that James will chime in with some more info re plans in the
future. What I often do when looking for data is to use google. For
example, a Ferret user just asked the Ferret e-mail list where he might
get T/P data. I googled: topex opendap coards. Ferret feels comfortable
with COARDS so I figured that if I could find his data in COARDS for
available via OPeNDAP he should suck the data directly into Ferret via
OPeNDAP. I found the MERSEA site right off the bat. I've used the same
trick to find SST data and wind data. The work that we are currently
doing to incorporate THREDDS into OPeNDAP servers as well as to upgrade
our servers so that they indicate their presence on the network is
aimed at the same problem. Hopefully, one can use Google or another
search engine to find OPeNDAP servers and then one can crawl these
sites via the THREDDS catalog. We do have a project with the UCSB
Alexandria Digital Library group to work on better data discovery and I
believe that they are investigating a web crawler that will look for
OPeNDAP server based on some of the ideas that I have brought forward
re searches via Google. Hope that this helps.
Peter
p.s. If you are interested in papers that we have published re OPeNDAP,
please let me know and I will point you at them.
On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
Hi all,
I have written a draft paper on the work I have been doing at the
Australian Bureau of Meteorology which has been accepted into a
conference here in September. In light of some of the reviewer
comments, I would like to spend a little more time describing the
OpenDAP community, and going into more depth w.r.t. XML data catalogs
etc.
One thing I thought I might try would be to write a catalog crawler to
demonstrate how one can discover data sources using automated tools to
a greater extent that possible under ad-hoc data publication.
I also thought I would get some feedback on what the community saw as
the most interesting aspects of thredds/opendap, and what new
directions are on the horizon (if I might be allowed to mix my
metaphors).
Cheers,
-T
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University of Rhode Island - Fax:
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