Posts by Matthew Nanas
Changes in ipfs-stac v0.2.0
- 04 November 2024
One of the pivotal projects the EASIER Data Initiative has produced is ipfs-stac. The Python library is a testament to the feasibility of onboarding and interfacing geospatial data on IPFS. The library enables developers and researchers to leverage STAC APIs enriched with Filecoin and IPFS metadata to seamlessly fetch, pin, and explore data in a familiar manner. In an ambiguous ecosystem with everchanging advancements, updates, breaking changes, and new features of the infrastructure will emerge. The team has made it a responsibility to adhere to these changes and that has prompted our projects to remain flexible. This notebook will explore the many new features and changes to ipfs-stac in version 0.2. To stay up to date with the development and release of new features, consider starring our respository for ipfs-stac
Workshop Recap
- 18 April 2024
The EASIER Data Initiative would like to extend our appreciation to everyone who participated in and was involved with our Workshop on Open Geospatial Science and the Decentralized Geospatial Web! This was a one-and-a-half-day event with 30+ domain experts and leaders from innovative organizations, federal agencies, and universities who cultivated discussion and showcased projects covering the overlap between geospatial science, the decentralized web, and open science.
Project Showcase - Web3 Geospatial Dashboard
- 24 January 2024
What does user access to geospatial data look like in Web3? How can they find data or download content? Spoiler alert! Not much different than today but with the advantages of a decentralized network. One of the projects currently being fostered by The EASIER Data Initiative has been focused on user accessibility of decentralized content with a Web3 Geospatial Dashboard application and a Chrome extension. The dashboard is the entry point for a user to discover content, specifically Landsat 9 Collection 2 Level-1 imagery. With the Chrome extension enabled, a user is able to “pin” an image from our implementation of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) running alongside our IPFS node. Let’s dive into the details of our Web3 implementation.
Proof of Concept Workflow Atomization Demo
- 01 July 2023
With a couple of use cases of code atomization now defined (shown in the previous post), this article will present a proof of concept for atomizing a simple Python workflow and generating a manifest of CIDs for the components used.
Decentralized and Deconstructed Approach to Code Artifacts
- 30 June 2023
For scientific publishing, being able to share artifacts such as data and code is imperative to illustrate a methodology in practice and support the validity of findings through replicability.