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ESGF_Functionality
Matthew Harris edited this page Oct 9, 2013
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The following functionality is currently supported by the ESGF Peer To Peer software stack:
- Metadata Searching
* Free text and faceted searching
* Geospatial and temporal querying
* Consistent search across all P2P Nodes in the federation
* Web user interface for browser-based searches
* REST API for interacting directly with the search service, across all Nodes, datasets and files
- Data Download
* Download of single files from web browser
* Generation of PKI based wget script for multiple files download
- Notification
* RSS feeds notifying users of any data publication event
- Analysis and Visualization
* Integration with Live Access Server
- User Management
* User registration
* Administrator interface for managing users in groups
- Security
* Identity Provider
* Single-Sign-On for browser based access based on OpenID
* PKI authentication for desktop client based access
* SAML Attribute Service
* SAML Authorization Service
* Policy service
* Registry service
* Remote group registration service
- Registry
* Dynamic advertisement and detection of services available at each P2P Node
- Installation
* Scripted installation of full software stack, configurable as four different flavors: _ data _ , _ index _ , _ compute _ and _ idp _
- Clients support
* Reusable wget scripts
* Data Mover Light
* UV-CDAT
- CLI
* ESGF REPL - take advantage of a shell interface and ability to load a growing library of available, community contributed commands; written in any of 5 languages!
The following functionality is currently in prototype stage:
- Administrator Dashboard
- Access via CDX python API (Climate Data Exchange)