IrishMarineInstitute/search-erddaps

Consolidate erddap server list location

MathewBiddle opened this issue · 10 comments

MathewBiddle commented

Just a proposition, feel free to ignore.

Looks like erddapy has a list of servers https://github.com/ioos/erddapy/blob/master/erddapy/utilities.py
and there is a list of servers in this repo https://github.com/IrishMarineInstitute/search-erddaps/blob/master/erddaps.json

Could we consolidate into a master list and put it somewhere? maybe https://github.com/IrishMarineInstitute/awesome-erddap
Then both of these tools could use a master list...

adamml commented

Looping @BobSimons

Talking with @fullergalway, we think the best approach to this would be to have a separate repository alongside the main Erddap repo which contains the "master list" as a JSON object.

That could be maintained by pull requests, similarly to the Awesome list, and we could link to it from the Awesome list.

This would allow the two tools you mention @mbiddle-bcodmo to hit off the list, and perhaps @BobSimons could hit his search tool off it too.

And noting that we also had a request by email (and now also see #5) to add the following to our tool...
http://gcoos5.geos.tamu.edu:6060/erddap/
http://gcoos4.tamu.edu:8080/erddap/

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7yl4r commented

+1 for a global erddap_list repo with readme & erddap.json.
Could then be easily added as a git submodule here, BobSimons/erddap, and elsewhere people might want it.

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adamml commented

Looping the committers at https://github.com/ioos/erddapy who aren't on this discussion.

@rsignell-usgs; @ocefpaf; & @circularpenguin

BobSimons commented

I support the idea, wherever it is.
How about next to awesome-erddap (since I am probably the least skillful with git)?

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ocefpaf commented

+1 a canonical source for this list would be nice. I believe the R library does something similar.

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adamml commented

@BobSimons, @ocefpaf, @7yl4r Thanks for your support on this. I'll have a look and see what we can do inside a repo on this organisation.

Following @ocefpaf's comment on the R library, looping the committers there: @sckott; @btupper; @jeroen; @douglatornell; @rmendels; @kwilcox.

adamml commented

Some thoughts before we do any work on this:

  • The master list will probably need to be a JSON file
  • To access the JSON file remotely, we probably need to set the GitHub pages up on the repo
  • Some of the applications use a URL to an Erddap instance and a name, some just a URL so the JSON will need both
  • The repo should carry instructions, similar to the Awesome list, on how to request updates and additions
fullergalway commented