Discovery Hack-a-thon Details

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

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 ...

Python Scripters

Java Programmers