[ckan-discuss] PyDAP plugin

Fri May 27 14:41:36 BST 2011

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 07:05, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> I would be glad to expand on how I see this integration in terms of
interoperability between pydap and CKAN and  also user interface. I think
this would be essencial before we can start discussing aspect of how this
particular plugin should be implemented.

Should we continue this discussion on the mailing list or should we move it
somewhere else?

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