Barrow Area Information Database (BAID) data services prototype

This data set comprises the artifacts of an applied research effort to identify ways in which archived data may be made more readily available to the Barrow Area Information Database and similar cyberinfrastructure implementations. A lightweight RESTful data service was developed to serve tab-separated ASCII data as a JSON HTTP response. The data service thus demonstrates one option for delivering data to BAID, making it possible to associate data products with the research site from which they were collected. The code for this server is made available as a zip file. Two posters describe the project goals and lessons learned. Note that the data in this project were derived from the Barrow Atqasuk ITEX Detailed Microclimate 1998-2008 dataset (doi.org/doi:10.18739/A2TW6V) and were not collected as part of the BAID Data Services Prototype effort. A codemeta.json file describes the project software in a machine-readable format (this file is also included in the zip file containing the source code). The latest version of the project code is available at https://github.com/nsidc/baid-prototype.