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

Maskey, Manil mmaskey at itsc.uah.edu
Tue Jun 7 12:35:05 EDT 2011


Here you go:

http://code.google.com/p/nctoolbox/source/browse/demos/opensearch.m?spec=svnf63c9e0292e8ab2966e8c13f23c812851e8f84fc&r=f63c9e0292e8ab2966e8c13f23c812851e8f84fc

--Manil

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From: esip-discovery-bounces at lists.esipfed.org [mailto:esip-discovery-bounces at lists.esipfed.org] On Behalf Of Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:40 AM
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Subject: [Esip-discovery] Fwd: [Go-essp-tech] [ESGF-Search] Opensearch and XML representation of a search query

Hey, does anyone know anything about the Matlab function "opensearch.m" referenced below?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rich Signell <rsignell at usgs.gov>
> Date: June 7, 2011 10:31:49 AM EDT
> To: "stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk" <stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk>
> Cc: "go-essp-tech at ucar.edu" <go-essp-tech at ucar.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Go-essp-tech] [ESGF-Search] Opensearch and XML representation of a search query
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> 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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> 
> 
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