I completed my external semester at 52°North on October 2, 2015. During this internship, my task was to gain experience in software development by developing a metadata editor for standarized sensor metadata. Please see my initial blog post for more information. I fulfilled this task by implementing an editor based on the smartEditor project and built a prototype which enables the editing of the metadata language SensorML. This prototype is called SmartSensorEditor. Currently, this editor supports several elements of the SensorML description language.more >
Metadata Management – New Projects: GeoMetaFacet and GEO label
The metadata community has taken two new software projects under its wing: GeoMetaFacet and GEO label Java.more >
OpenSensorSearch – Final blog post
The aim of the OpenSensorSearch project is to provide an implementation of a sensor discovery server with the high performance of a Solr back-end to give users results fast. In addition, we are working on harvesting mechanisms for OpenSensorSearch (OSS) to allow users and developers to write harvesters for their own sensor data sources.
In the previous blog post, we discussed the work done in the first few weeks related to the database back-end and how we used Apache Solr for indexing and fast searching. Today we present the work done in the second half of the project. It focussed on harvesting metadata from other sources and the user interface. I mainly discuss
- Javascript harvesting mechanism,
- “harvest callback” technique,
- user interface implementation with Spring MVC and
- general technical details.