ESIP 2012-01 Discovery Planning

<< Back to the Discovery Cluster page

General Info

• What: ESIP 2012 Winter meeting, Discovery Workshop
  • This is the second of two Discovery sessions. See out other workshop session on Thursday.
• When: Friday, January 6, 2012 at 10:30am-12:00pm. Track 3.
• Where: Renaissance Washington, DC Dupont Circle Hotel, Room: MT. VERNON
• Description: In this joint Earth Science Collaboratory (ESC) and Discovery Cluster session, we will discuss and plan the direction of the Discovery Cluster for the coming year. With multiple Earth science data centers already implementing these Discovery services, a forum is needed to discuss planning, interoperability, community process issues for the Discovery services.
• Session Lead(s): Hook Hua, Chris Lynnes
• ESIP Collaboration Areas: Discovery
• Expertise Level: Apprentice
• Topic tags: Org, Tech
• Notes:
  • This session is focused on discussions for making progress as a community in coordinating conventions and interoperability of discovery services.
  • For each area, we are looking for leads for the DCP.

Agenda

Draft DCP-3: Where do we go from here? (25-minutes, Brian Wilson)

• DCP-3: Standardized Linking from one cast to another or to additional metadata

Faceting and Custom Fields Discussion (25-minutes, Eric Rozell)

• Representing "valid parameter values".
• S2S Framework.
• OpenSearch has SRU (Search and Retrieval via URL) extension
  • has Facet Parameters

Some Lessons Learned from Apache Solr-based Faceting (10-minutes, Hook Hua)

• Want to identify and apply some lessons learned on faceting.

Any Other Topics for Discovery? (~10-minutes)

• Should collect and prioritize list of Discovery-related topics to address.
• Should coordinate with needs of other clusters. e.g. ESC.
• Future topics and DCPs
  • Client developments
  • Server developments
  • Response formats
    • RSS
    • JSON
  • Uniform error-handling

Leveraging the Discovery Testbed (20-minutes, Hook Hua & Christine White)

• Based on discussions, how can we best leverage a Discovery testbed?
• Draft Discovery Testbed Work Plan up for review.
• Note that there is a general ESIP Testbed Session on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 from 2:00-3:30PM