Ryan,
Can you enumerate some of the advances that STAC brings over the existing
THREDDS catalog spec?
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/v4.6/tds/catalog/InvCatalogSpec.html
>From what I can tell, a lot of the concepts are similar, and the existing
spec is already supported by tools beyond THREDDS, like Hyrax and ERDDAP. I
think JSON is great and all, but I'm curious what adding a new standard
brings us rather than extending an existing, already-supported standard?
Ryan
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 7:23 AM Ryan Abernathey <ryan.abernathey at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear CF Conventions People,
>
> Some of you may be aware of the Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC)
> project.
> https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/
> STAC is basically a .json specification which aims to standardize the way
> geospatial assets are exposed online and queried. It originated from the
> geospatial imaging community, and is described in this blog post by Chris
> Holmes:
>
> https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/announcing-the-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-stac-specification-1db58820b9cf
>
> There is currently some discussion on the STAC repo about how STAC could
> be useful for netCDF-type data.
> https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/issues/366
> This is a technology space that is currently occupied by THREDDS and
> OpenDAP. But something like STAC could be very useful for our community,
> especially as more netCDF-style data moves into the cloud.
>
> In particular, there is a proposed extension to STAC to describe "data
> cubes," which is roughly what geospatial imaging people call netCDF-type
> gridded datasets:
> https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/pull/361
>
> I wanted to email this mailing list to see if someone from the CF
> community could weigh in on this proposed standard. More generally, if the
> CF / netCDF community wanted to engage with the STAC people more broadly, I
> think there is quite a bit of potential.
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan Abernathey
>
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