catalog application link example

[jcothran]

Is there an example WAF type record and associated searchable service type for more generic 'application' type links? RA's,etc have lots of associated application development as well as more basic THREDDS/OGC web services and would be nice to use the catalog to discover these links and associated summaries also.

[jcothran]

I'll tack onto this similarly with ESRI rest-oriented links like http://129.252.139.110/gsaa/rest/services/SCDNR/MapServer which may expose a number of other layers and services. The source collection table and the main NGDC catalog do not currently provide a search method for application or ESRI type endpoints - are the catalog records forwarded to other catalogs(say using CKAN allowing more faceted search) that allow additional search options on additional service types?

[robragsdale]

Jeremy. We do not have any "applications" registered in the catalog. I don't have an example of application that has been successfully harvested. I know EMMA cannot harvest a html endpoints, so it needs to contain an xml file extension. This has come up once before, but we did not resolve on how to handle.

[rsignell-usgs]

@jcothran, perhaps a bit off topic, but do you have an Ipython notebook that demonstrates using ESRI rest service access to your feature data at http://129.252.139.110/gsaa/rest/services/SCDNR/MapServer?

[rsignell-usgs]

@jcothran, also do you have the ability to turn on WFS services for this data?

[emiliom]

@rsignell-usgs , I'm curious why you ask about WFS (other than it's a bona-fide OGC standard, whereas ESRI REST isn't). I ask b/c I'm interested in WFS support in the IOOS registry-GeoPortal-catalog chain, and in part b/c WFS is not really supported or surfaced yet in that chain.

@jcothran , we're also interested in your original question -- support for "application" link types from WAF-hosted ISO XML metadata records. I've been exploring that in the context of the West Coast Ocean Data Portal (http://portal.westcoastoceans.org), not the IOOS catalog. No clear solutions yet, but I'll prod again next week. I would like to see a link-type for generic online user applications defined over at Cat-Interop (eg, LinkPropertyLookupTable2.csv), but haven't had the time to poke.

[rsignell-usgs]

@emiliom , yes, I asked exactly for that reason: WFS is a OGC standard, and ESRI rest isn't. Plus OGSLib can read WFS: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rsignell-usgs/notebook/blob/2f1b37ae79a828508d56f2a78db638eb278058fc/WFS/WFS_plot_in_Cartopy.ipynb

[jcothran]

@rsignell-usgs I don't have WFS enabled for this ESRI server we manage at the moment I believe, an example layer feature query using the REST format is below. Like that the Cat-Interop servicetype listing recognizes various service types that might be more commonly in-use although not necessarily formally registered with the OGC or other standards bodies that I'm aware of at the moment.

@emiliom I'm on the same track as you there, hoping to see the Cat-Interop servicetype table listing recognized by the NGDC or other main catalogs, which would include www:link and maybe add something like ESRI:Rest ? if that is not already covered in the other ESRI services?

http://gsaaportal.org/proxy/rest_query/?url=http%3A%2F%2F129.252.139.110%2Fgsaa%2Frest%2Fservices%2FSCDNR%2FMapServer%2F24%2Fquery%3Fgeometry%3D-8994098.2628326%252C3338701.6112945%252C-8979422.3534039%252C3324025.7018658%26geometryType%3DesriGeometryEnvelope%26inSR%3D102113%26outSR%3D102113%26spatialRel%3DesriSpatialRelIntersects%26f%3Djson%26returnGeometry%3Dtrue%26outFields%3DDATE_%252COBSERVER%252COBSMODE%252CCOUNTY%252CCONUM%252CLONGDM%252CLATDM%252CTOWNSHIP%252CRANGE%252CSECTION%252CGAZPAGE%252CERA%252CNEW90%252CSTATUS90%252CSTATUS80%252CSTATUS70%252CSUBSTRAT%252CCANOPY%252CLOCATION%252CISLAND%252CSIZE_%252CSIZECONF%252CSPECCONF%252CBRPE%252CDCCO%252CANHI%252CGBHE%252CGWHE%252CGREG%252CSNEG%252CLBHE%252CTCHE%252CREEG%252CCAEG%252CGRHE%252CBCNH%252CYCNH%252CWHIB%252CGLIB%252CROSP%252CWOST%252CSMWT%252CLGWT%252CSMDK%252CLGDK