Examples of accessible data inventories

Simple over Standards #

Frequently the biggest hurdle to sharing data is the pre-existing organization of files. While open standards based API access can smooth over the bumps inherent to locally stored heterogeneous collections of files, the amount of effort to setup an existing API webservice to share your data can be overwhelming. (Not to mention having to roll your own in an standards complant way.)

The NOAA example below is a great example of a simple solution that can be used as a template to provide easy programatic access to any dataset.