[cat-interop] CSW APISO ServiceTypes

Signell, Richard rsignell at usgs.gov
Thu Feb 20 11:03:43 PST 2014


Let's try that again:

https://github.com/OSGeo/Cat-Interop/blob/master/ServiceTypes.md

-Rich

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
> Tom,
> Sure!  I've successfully added my first content here:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/Cat-Interop/blob/master/ServiceTypes.md
> -Rich
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rich: I've initially made you and me owners/collaborators and we can add anyone who wants to join and wants to contribute more directly. Does this make sense?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 13:45, "Signell, Richard" <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tom,
>>> Good idea.
>>>
>>> Q: do you plan to add folks as collaborators, or do everything via
>>> pull requests (if someone wanted to create an .md file, for example?
>>>
>>> -Rich
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Take two: I thought it would be more valuable to change to
>>>> https://github.com/OSGeo/Cat-Interop, given this can be a working area
>>>> for link types as well as other items of Cat-Interop.  Done.
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Done: https://github.com/OSGeo/LinkTypes
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
>>>>>> Tom,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Setting up a repo on Github (e.g. Geo/LinkTypes) seems to me a great
>>>>>> idea.  We could then track issues and files and have a better
>>>>>> organized conversation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for offering this up!
>>>>>> -Rich
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Rich: good points here.  FYI we are running into this (as we speak) in
>>>>>>> MetaSearch (https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch) as part of being
>>>>>>> able to seamlessly add services or data within QGIS workflows:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/issues/20
>>>>>>> https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/wiki/Discovery-workflow
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know that Bart van den Eijnden (on here) has also faced these issues
>>>>>>> as part of JavaScript implementations.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Having said this, one of the major goals of cat-interop, as discussed
>>>>>>> at foss4g 2013, is to better articulate link types to help CSW
>>>>>>> clients.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> An important step here is to have a consistent vocabulary for
>>>>>>> gmd:protocol, or dct:references/scheme or dc:URI/@protocol
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Options:
>>>>>>> - OGC URN Policy: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogcUrnPolicy
>>>>>>> - ESRI: it looks like ESRI Geoportal implements the OGC URN Policy
>>>>>>> with some extensions/additions
>>>>>>> - Geonetwork enumerations:
>>>>>>> https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/blob/develop/web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schema_plugins/iso19139/loc/eng/labels.xml#L1894.
>>>>>>> Many downstream applications are tied to these, such as GeoNode
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I propose standing up a repository on GitHub (OSGeo/LinkTypes) to:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) identify a harmonized list of link types for:
>>>>>>> - metadata publishers to use
>>>>>>> - CSW implementations to implement as required (e.g. when harvesting, etc.)
>>>>>>> 2) based on this, produce a list a possible detection
>>>>>>> patterns/heuristics on determining what type of link is being parsed
>>>>>>> by a given client.  This can be used to set a link type in metadata,
>>>>>>> or guess what a URL can do
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Catalog Interoperability folks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As part of a system test for the Integrated Ocean Observing System,
>>>>>>>> we've been trying CSW apiso queries to different endpoints and trying
>>>>>>>> to retrieve specific service types from the retrieved records (e.g.
>>>>>>>> WMS, WCS, OPeNDAP).  This has been revealing, but not that surprising
>>>>>>>> -- different endpoints represent the services differently.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As an example, two geoportal servers (at NODC and NGDC) I've been
>>>>>>>> working with have:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> WMS:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> urn:x-esri:specification:ServiceType:wms:url
>>>>>>>> urn:x-esri:specification:ServiceType:WMS
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> OPeNDAP:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "urn:x-esri:specification:ServiceType:odp:url"
>>>>>>>> "urn:x-esri:specification:ServiceType:OPeNDAP"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The providers at NODC and NGDC are both willing to change, and would
>>>>>>>> be happy to use a "standardized" representation -- if only they knew
>>>>>>>> what it was!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Have folks on this list worked on this issue yet?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Rich
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Dr. Richard P. Signell   (508) 457-2229
>>>>>>>> USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd.
>>>>>>>> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Dr. Richard P. Signell   (508) 457-2229
>>>>>> USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd.
>>>>>> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Richard P. Signell   (508) 457-2229
>>> USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd.
>>> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Richard P. Signell   (508) 457-2229
> USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd.
> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598



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