metadata-entry-form api?

[JessyBarrette]

Issue

I can see a lot use cases where a api sitting on top of the forms which could provide read access to the different records available would very useful and could potentially resolved some issues related to some downstream aspects. Among these, an API could help for:

• Generate use case specific dashboard for different groups
• Review and maintain metadata associated to a specific dataset. Example linking ERDDAP metadata to its metadata entry. If a an api exists, I can easily scrape the form to find the matching metadata record and update ERDDAP base on the latest changes made to the form.
• Apply institution specific metadata tests: Example Hakai metadata records would ideally require to have the funder be listed as Tula foundation.

How

Perhaps just a python fast-api api instance that gives the ability to send back the different metadata records as json would be good enough.

[JessyBarrette]

After some discutions with @fostermh, this seem relatively doable. The metadata-entry-form uses a firebase database which is based out of the json file.

Firebase has its own api already. 👯

The main issue would related to how to set the authorizations to access the database.
@n-a-t-e apparently you would have some thoughts about that.

[fostermh]

https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/database

and for authenticating a REST API Request
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/database#section-param-auth