[ckan-discuss] PyDAP plugin

Rufus Pollock rufus.pollock at okfn.org
Tue May 24 13:05:27 BST 2011


On 24 May 2011 12:26, Flavio Coelho <fccoelho at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been following some of the discussions regarding finer grained
> access to datasets, such as the ability to fetch columns or row-ranges and I
> thought about DAP[1] and its Python Implementation, PyDAP[2].
>

I really like opendatap and pydap (i used them a bit a few years ago).


> PyDAP is able to provide introspection and fetching of data based on a
> really simple (and pythonic) query interface.
>
> PyDAP comes with both a client and a server for DAP supported datatypes.
> Since its server is a wsgi app, I think it could be coupled to Ckan in a
> very straightforward way: every locally stored dataset, which is also
> compatible with PyDAP, could get an URL which would point to the pydap
> server.
>

Sounds interesting.

It's just an idea. Even if OpenDAP is never directly suported by Ckan with a
> client or a server, I still think it would be a good Idea to have a standard
> way of identify DAP enabled datasets, so that users can interact with them
> in a more powerful way.
>

I think this is a great idea. Would you want to try mocking something up?

Rufus


>
> [1] http://opendap.org
> [2] http://pydap.org/
>
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