MASPAWIO OIH Meeting 2022 03 17
- 2022-03-17 @ 12:00 UTC
- 30 minutes in length
- Jitsi meeting (audio or optional video)
- connect directly in your browser: https://meet.jit.si/OceanInfoHub
- or use the "Jitsi Meet" app on Android or Apple
- room name: OceanInfoHub
- introductions
- update on ODIS-MASPAWIO connection
- HTTPS issue
- OIH/MASPAWIO connection: https://github.com/iodepo/odis-arch/blob/master/book/tooling/notebooks/Exploration/maspawio.ipynb
- actions for next meeting
| Action Item | Assigned to |
|---|---|
| Create standalone Python script for James | Jeff |
| Update maspawio.csv with all layers | James |
| Provide Python version to Jeff | James |
| Examine parsing JSON response | Jeff |
- Attendance: James Mbugua (CORDIO), Abigail Mwalimu (CORDIO), Doug Fils (OIH), Jeff McKenna (OIH)
- Agenda1: Introductions
- Agenda2: update on ODIS-MASPAWIO connection
- Doug points to notebook for harvesting MASPAWIO's service: https://github.com/iodepo/odis-arch/blob/schema-dev/book/tooling/notebooks/Exploration/maspawio.ipynb
- Doug explains efforts so far to parse the Dublic Core records, in XML
- Jeff brings idea to parse the JSON service instead: http://maspawio.net/catalogue/csw?outputschema=http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2&service=CSW&request=GetRecordById&version=2.0.2&elementsetname=full&id=3046b5fc-18e0-11eb-894f-0a735f7a740c&outputFormat=application/json
- James and Doug explain background of HTTPS issue
- James working with local partner to correct issue on server
- Doug recommends leveraging Let's Encrypt
- Jeff points to steps he just ran on another server to enable HTTPS: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-20-04
- James to provide an updated data/maspawio.csv file for all layer services (likely through a Pull Request to the ODIS-Arch repository on GitHub)
- Jeff to generate standalone Python script for James to run locally to generate RDF file
- James to provide Jeff his preferred Python version (3.9 etc)
- James mentions that Abigail and he will be attending meeting at the Regional Centre For Mapping Of Resources For Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi
- Next meeting
- all agreed to have bi-weekly meetings
- all agreed to keep same timeslot
- next meeting: 30 March @ 12:00 UTC
