Prototype python framework for bringing together community developed libraries

[kwilcox]

In the Java world there is the NetCDF-Java CDM that allows applications to build upon a common API into gridded and discrete geometry datasets.

In the Python world there is a collection of individual libraries developed on top of netCDF4-python and/or xarray that do just a few things very well. There is no common access API.

We had a hack-a-thon at the Axiom office in the summer to stub out the plug-in architecture. More work needs to be done to define an API for gridded and discrete geometry datasets to build upon the initial work done here.

Deliverable: Framework to allow community packages to tie their codebase into and documentation of the API required to be implemented in said community packages.