DataLink issues

[Patrick Dowler]

On 2012-09-26 07:05:15 Petr Skoda wrote:
> IMHO DL has a sense only without the parameters - just to discovery more 
> representations od data available in archive. Here I support fully Doug !

My sense from the splinter sessions in Urbana was that everyone agreed with 
this idea: DataLink does not itself take much in terms of parameters *but* it 
does have to be able to describe both links to static data products data 
products and links to services that perform some processing such as you and MD 
have described. 

In addition to "big data" that cannot be feasibly downloaded and cutouts in 
regular data to make client work straightforward, the Theory people need this 
as well since they access to "data products" -- maybe exclusively -- that 
require cutouts of some form and often along custom axes.

I am planning the interop sessions now and will devote considerable time to 
DataLink and DataAccess and the boundary between them.

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Patrick Dowler
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