This repository aims to standardize API components to search for remotely-sensed imagery. A number of software and data providers have been creating RESTful JSON-based image catalogs. These end up all looking fairly similar, but are still different enough that each needs custom-coded client libraries. A set of standardized API's should increase interoperability, enabling more catalog clients and cross-catalog searching.
Anyone building software that catalogs imagery is welcome to collaborate. Our goal is to be a collaboration of developers, not architecture astronauts. The first step to join the collaboration is to add a folder to the 'implementations' folder with an OpenAPI Spec (v2.0) of your implementation, along with markdown document describing your implementation.
A first meeting (ideally in person) among those with implementations who are interested in standardizing will kick off a first version of specification, with each group iterating on their version of that common standard. From there the spec(s) will evolve according to open source principles, using github as the primary tooling (pull requests and reviews for all changes, etc).
This repository contains the core Principles that govern the collaboration. The implementations/ folder is where existing catalog implementations are detailed, and is the center of the first part of collaboration. There is also a Design Discussion on some of the bigger questions.
Once a number of implementations are evaluated work will begin on draft specification.