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Pangaea R client #16

Open sckott opened 10 years ago

sckott commented 10 years ago

Organizational Page: PangeaR Category: Coding Title: Pangaea R client Proposed by: Scott Chamberlain Participants: Summary:

We (rOpenSci) have been thinking about an R client for Pangaea database for a while now. They have an OAI-PMH service to search metadata, which eventually leads to the data files

I don't know if @gavinsimpson is coming, but he voiced interest a while back in helping.

mbjones commented 10 years ago

We've also talked about asking the folks at Pangaea whether they would be willing to implement the DataONE API. @davev or @csjx might have an idea if they've been contacted about that. Then they could use the dataone R package. Or maybe both? The advantage of a custom client is that you can support specialized capabilities, whereas supporting a standard API like DataONE make s less for people to learn to get basic access across repositories.

sckott commented 10 years ago

@mbjones Great, would be good to see if there is any movement on their end.

gavinsimpson commented 10 years ago

Hi Scott,

I'm not sure to what I may or may not be coming :-) but I'm very interested in helping with / contributing to an initiative to generate a package to interface with Pangaea.

Even if a DataONE API / pkg were used, I'm assuming that the particular data structures would benefit from domain-specific functions to manipulate or present the data to users (re Matt's email) ,and linking with Simon Goring and the Neotoma package and possible developments/discussions they've been having re representing palaeo data in R would also be useful.

Regardless, keep me in the loop as I'm v. interested in this!

Cheers,

G

On 15 July 2014 17:19, Scott Chamberlain notifications@github.com wrote:

We (rOpenSci) have been thinking about an R client for Pangaea database http://www.pangaea.de/ for a while now. They have an OAI-PMH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAI-PMH service to search metadata, which eventually leads to the data files

I don't know if @gavinsimpson https://github.com/gavinsimpson is coming, but he voiced interest a while back in helping.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/NCEAS/open-science-codefest/issues/16.

Gavin Simpson, PhD

sckott commented 10 years ago

Great, we'll keep you in the loop @gavinsimpson

mbjones commented 10 years ago

@gavinsimpson We're discussing sessions for our Open Science Codefest. Think you can make it?

sckott commented 10 years ago

github repo here: https://github.com/ropensci/pangaear