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So it may simply be that extraction-from-dataset-oriented services can never be truly RESTful?
I fear so. Having said that, if we take a feature-centric approach then one might consider that a dataset (or "data granule" in NERC Data Grid parlance) contains a finite number of features, each with its own id. It might be possible to have a RESTful approach to getting these features, but I bet it wouldn't take long for the REST model to break down. Is it really possible to identify in advance all the possible features that might be extracted from a dataset? I doubt it, even for simple cases such as a satellite image. Jon -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Jon Blower Tel: +44 118 378 5213 (direct line) Technical Director Tel: +44 118 378 8741 (ESSC) Reading e-Science Centre Fax: +44 118 378 6413 ESSC Email: jdb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx University of Reading 3 Earley Gate Reading RG6 6AL, UK --------------------------------------------------------------
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