Federated Search To Do

Short Term

• Devise versioning scheme for ESIP framework (Chris Lynnes)
• Recommend a common set of keywords (Brian Wilson)
• Document the representation of data hyperlinks (Chris Lynnes)
• Research and define a common way of exception handling (Doug Newman)
  • Just HTTP return codes, or in returned documents? What is the OpenSearch way?
• Extending search to other attributes (Ruth Duerr)
  • Granule level
  • Dataset level
• Resolving duplicate entries
  • Datasets from multiple servers
  • Granules from same or multiple servers
• Recommendations/Best Practices for response contents
  • Space and time extents
• Granule heterogeneity within datasets
• Incorporating data services
  • Pomegranate and w10n-sci
  • OPeNDAP (TBD)

Medium Term

• Incorporating data services
  • Pomegranate and w10n-sci
  • Integration with Service and Data casting?

Long Term

• Addressing attribution and provenance and local data management issues
• Addressing semantic heterogeneity problems in keyword search (now) an d attribute search (later)