On 7/30/06, Jo Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
dear Norman, all,
This is probably not the answer you want, but a group of people around
OSGeo.org have been collaborating on plans for an ultra-lightweight catalog
service, RESTful addressable, incorporating just what's being used
from the standards stack. This was motivated in part by Paul Ramsey's
reflections on the subject last year:
http://geotips.blogspot.com/2006/02/more-simple-web-services-catalogues.html
The current conversation is encapsulated in the mail archive at
https://geodata.osgeo.org/ (link on the left - 'lean and mean catalog
service' thread). I'm hoping to find time to extract the good bits
into a wiki page soon - my ideal is to create a set of tests which
would, if passed, constitute a simple implementation - and keep it all
framed by pragmatic re-use of metadata. It would be worth organising
an irc scheduled chat about this, I'll send a ping here if anyone's
interested in following up - and a F2F / BOF on the subject is planned
for http://foss4g2006.org as well.
good luck!
jo
Jo, all,
thanks that interesting, the mind map on the wiki
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Metadata_Requirements was very
useful.
The concept of a REST styled service is very appealing as opposed to
the ebXML SOAP implementation, in most cases SOAP is overkill and as
long as we can all share our data / metadata then we are fine.
There is however a open source (Apache License) exbml registry service
- ebxmlrr (project omar). Also I am opposed to mining Google - is it
possible to implement our own bots?
thanks,
Norman
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