Recap of your meeting with Radiant Earth Foundation
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Meeting Purpose
STAC Community Meetup to discuss updates and prepare for the upcoming STAC Community Sprint.
Key Takeaways
- New tool launched for searching across multiple STAC APIs for collections
- PySTAC resolved validation issues related to JSON schema fetching
- STAC Community Sprint preparation underway, with agenda shaping and call for lightning talks
- Discussions on representing virtual zarr chunk stores in STAC as collection-level assets
Topics
New Multi-STAC API Search Tool
- Henry developed a tool for searching across multiple STAC APIs simultaneously
- Focuses on collection search, not item search
- Deployed and accessible via link in meeting notes
- Compatible with STAC Browser
- Allows custom API list input via query parameter
PySTAC Updates
- Resolved validation failures due to JSON schema fetching issues
- Added user agent to PySTAC header for requests
- New release available to fix these issues
- Read the Docs builds for PySTAC and PySTAC Client being addressed
- PySTAC Client builds fixed, PySTAC still in progress
Virtual Zarr Chunk Stores in STAC
- Julia ran a workshop on representing virtual zarr chunk stores as collection-level assets
- Feedback received and content being upstreamed to various documentation
- Linked notebook available with current best practices
STAC Community Sprint Preparation
- Repo created for sprint information and agenda shaping
- Call for inputs on specification topics and implementation examples
- Agenda includes state of STAC in zarr presentations
- Seeking EOPF sample service representative for overview (possibly Mario Winkler)
- Planning lightning talks (5-minute presentations)
- Call for lightning talk submissions to be announced via email/Slack
Sprint Participation
- Discussion on how new contributors can get involved
- Emphasis on discussions and idea convergence rather than just coding
- Encouragement to prepare opinions and ideas beforehand
Next Steps
- Emmanuel to send email/Slack message calling for lightning talk submissions
- Participants to submit PRs for lightning talk proposals in the sprint repo
- Emmanuel to provide more information on social event and venue confirmation
- Attendees to reach out with any questions about the sprint
- Emmanuel to contact all participants this week with further details