add discovery metadata editor UI

[tomkralidis]

User story

As an operator, I want to have access to a user interface to manage discovery metadata, so that I can create discovery metadata using a web-based editor/wizard.

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] wis2box-ui contains a view with a WCMP2 editor
• [ ] user can publish discovery metadata to the wis2box API / catalogue

Definition of done

• [ ] unit/functional tests added/updated
• [ ] documentation updated
• [ ] live demonstration provided

[golfvert]

I agree! If we consider this as an "external" component of wis2box, this is something that can be used independently. So, a ready to use containerised webapp? We will need "glue" between this and wis2box for the "publish" part. So, "import" the record in the wis2box, "publish" availability. Or something like that.

[tomkralidis]

As it happens, ISRIC has been working on a metadata UI which works off a metadata schema to dynamically create a UI/UX. This is very powerful for validation and generation of any metadata. Excellent work here by @pvgenuchten.

We have since repackaged the project as part of the OSGeo ecosystem as mdme (Model Driven Metadata Editor). https://github.com/OSGeo/mdme, which we can use in wis2box in support of WCMP2. Load/validate/save workflow will work in conjunction with wis2box-api (pygeoapi API transaction endpoint).

[tomkralidis]

Update:

• discovery metadata UI editor will be built for wis2box integration as well as standalone mode (to allow for wider use)
• UI will talk to API (@tomkralidis) for workflow:
  • load
  • validate
  • save
  • delete
  • update
• examples: https://github.com/wmo-im/wis2box/tree/main/tests/data/metadata/discovery

[tomkralidis]

A WCMP2 schema bundle is now available from https://github.com/wmo-im/wcmp2/blob/fix-schema/wcmp2-bundled.json

[tomkralidis]

2 modes:

• integrated (with API workflow for validation/transactions)
  • add topic hierarchy validation and record validation to wis2box-api
• standalone
  • copy/paste output

Auth:

• use wis2box-auth for now
• open new issue on upgrading auth to use something like Keycloak

Topic hierarchy:

• https://github.com/wmo-im/wis2-topic-hierarchy
• pywcmp implements topic hierarchy bundle creation and validation

[tomkralidis]

@sabers: should be ready today with local tests.

Would be valuable to generate entire WCMP2 document for non-wis2box use cases.

@tomkralidis to point to Python code for implementation in admin ui.

[tomkralidis]

• working meeting 2023-03-06
• updates made to Synoptic fork
• next working meeting on 2023-03-13 to test workflow with API

[tomkralidis]

• working on wis2box-ui-admin into wis2box docker compose setup
• Vuetify based on Vue 2
• need upgrade path for long term sustainability

[webb-ben]

wis2box-ui-admin uses Vue 2 because it is required by vjsf not by Vuetify. For instance, wis2box-ui uses Vuetify with Vue 3

[tomkralidis]

First pass implemented in wis2box-ui-admin in experimental mode.