Discovery Hack-a-thon Details

Overview

What's the Plan? Get together to make some simple Discovery clients! All are welcome, no previous experience or coding skills necessary!

Non-Coders

Geoportal

We will have a Geoportal from our testbed up and running. You can add servers into its configuration, take it out for a spin!

Mentor: Christine White

Command line (wget, curl)

Yes, you can interact with an OpenSearch server or a Data Cast using basic command-line URL getters, like wget (available for all platforms) and curl.

Mentors: ... and Chris Lynnes

Browsers and News Readers

It's even possible to interact with both Data "casts" and OpenSearch servers using a simple browser. Also, News Readers, especially useful for Data casts!

Mentors: Ruth Duerr and ...

Perl Monks

Learn how to hack a quick client together. Particularly useful for doing scripted search/acquire for datasets following your own, possibly idiosyncratic needs.

Mentors: Chris Lynnes and ...