The Polar Regions are often described as the ‘canary in a coalmine’ for Earth’s changing climate. Decreases in sea ice extent and glacier and ice sheet mass balance exhibit some of the most dramatic examples of the changing polar landscape. In this talk, Annie will present the virtues of augmenting Apache Tika to automatically detect and parse the most prevalent Polar and Arctic data and metadata formats. Specifically, Annie will share her experience as a new Tika developer integrating the Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) file type into Tika—a file format developed specifically for array-oriented scientific data. Audience Developers interested in using Tika and polar data of all sorts should come.
