Introduction
The aim of the OpenSensorSearch project is to provide a fast implementation of a sensor discovery server with the high performance of a Solr back-end. In addition, we are working on harvesting mechanisms for OpenSensorSearch to allow users to write harvesters for their own sensor data sources.
During this first term, I have had frequent contact with my mentors, twice a week on Monday and Friday. We stick to a Scrum-like methodology and rely heavily on test-driven development. The main considerations and tasks during the first half of the project runtime were:
- Testing and extending the existing 52°North Sensor Instance Registry (SIR) implementation: Since the project builds upon the SIR implementation, it must be carefully tested and extended for the OpenSensorSearch implementation.
- Providing fast indexing and retrieving: The metadata indexing shall use the data fields supported by Apache Solr for fast indexing and retrieving.
- Developing easy and open harvesting mechanisms: The harvesting mechanisms must be both easy and open to make it accessible to wide span of developersmore >