Make sure these NOAA CO-OPS model aggregation catalogs get harvested

[rsignell-usgs]

NOAA CO-OPS now has aggregations going for many of their operational models, so we should submit them. I think the contact would be Mohamed.Chaouchi@noaa.gov, who has the ability to restart and fix issues with the CO-OPS thredds server.

The top level catalog is at:
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog.html
but we don't want to harvest that! We want to harvest the individual aggregation catalogs that are shown there:

http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/gbofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/cbofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/lhofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/loofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/lmofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/leofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/lsofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/nyofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/sjrofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/dbofs_agg.xml
http://opendap.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/thredds/tbofs_agg.xml

[dpsnowden]

@robragsdale Can you just forward this to the ioos.catalog@noaa.gov list? http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/catalog/register.html

@rsignell-usgs just sent the request off.

[dpsnowden]

@rsignell-usgs I think I see why we don't want to harvest the top level catalog. But, I feel like we run into this decision for every new server we come across. Can you list a few features or characteristics that we can use to write up a catalog creation best practices? We spend a lot of time fixing catalogs. Can we put some instructions together to minimize that, even if we can't eliminate it?

[rsignell-usgs]

Here's the rule: make catalogs for aggregated, CF-compliant data separate from catalogs that list the granules that make up the aggregations.

[rsignell-usgs]

@mchaouchi, if all goes well, in a few days your aggregated data will be discoverable in the NGDC geoportal here
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page

One thing I noticed. The "title" and "summary" attributes are what the user sees when search for datasets on geoportal. The "title" attributes for the aggregations could probably use some improving, and the "summary" attributes are missing, so will get filled in with a generic summary "Best time series...". Check out the attached screen grab from a test run on my geoportal server.

If would be nice if we could add title and comments to the catalog ncml so that it looks more like this:

Can you do this or do you want me to help?

[mchaouchi]

Hi Rich,

I will change the titles and summaries and will let you know.

Thank you,
Mohamed

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:12:53 -0800
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Subject: Re: [system-test] Make sure these NOAA CO-OPS model aggregation catalogs get harvested (#24)

@mchaouchi, if all goes well, in a few days your aggregated data will be discoverable in the NGDC geoportal here
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page

One thing I noticed. The "title" and "summary" attributes are what the user sees when search for datasets on geoportal. The "title" attributes for the aggregations could probably use some improving, and the "summary" attributes are missing, so will get filled in with a generic summary "Best time series...". Check out the attached screen grab from a test run on my geoportal server.

If would be nice if we could add title and comments to the catalog ncml so that it looks more like this:

Can you do this or do you want me to help?

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