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SCOOP CATALOG SERVICES
Provided by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
Description
The catalog services provide access to the SCOOP metadata at the collection
level. Facilities are provided to retrieve valid search parameters, to
perform a catalog search, to retrieve details about a collection, and to
return a list of files that may be downloaded via hyperlinks or ordered
from the archive sites. (Downloading or ordering data is currently
disabled until access security concerns are resolved.)
Documentation
Documentation on the use of these services may be found in the
Interface Descriptions
The catalog services are accessed via a single interface, SCOOPCatalogServices.cgi,
which has multiple operations. The following operations are supplied:
- getlist
- This operation accepts an optional "which" parameter and returns a list
of valid values that may be used in search criteria in a subsequent "search"
operation.
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- tuples
- This operation provides a similar function to the "getlist" operation
described above. However, there is no input parameter, and the response is
a list of "tuples"; that is, valid combinations of all of the searchable
parameter values. This operation is used to provide the interactivity of
the Catalog Search web page.
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- search
- This operation performs a search for SCOOP collections that meet the specified
input criteria, which may include such things as data format, services available,
date range, and/or geographic coverage. The result is a list of collections and their
internal identifiers which may be used to access more detailed metadata about the
collection.
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- details
- This operation retrieves the detailed metadata about a single collection.
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- getdates
- This operation, given a collection identifier and a date range, returns the
range of dates that are available for that collection and date range at each
archive site with run information, if any.
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- listfiles
- This operation, given a collection identifier, archive site, and date range,
returns a list of files and URLs that are available for that collection and date
range at that site. The URLs may then be used to retrieve the actual files.
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