Facilitate Orcasound data access

[valentina-s]

This project aims to facilitate Orcasound Data Access. Recently, Orcasound data has been accepted in the Registry of Open Data on AWS. Due to the streaming structure of the data (small .ts files), it can be a bit hard for a newcomer to query the data. The aim is to build a user friendly package to facilitate the access and abstract the dependence on the data structure which may change in the future. Useful features will be the ability to select a node, time range, time frequency, output format, etc. The orca-hls-utils package has some of this functionality and would benefit from more abstraction, testing, documentation. Many other projects will benefit from this package.

Expected outcomes: A Python package to ease access for free, open Orcasound audio data.

Required Skills:
Object Oriented Python

Bonus Skills:
Cloud Computing, ffmpeg, Module Packaging

Mentors:
Valentina, Scott

Difficulty level: Hard

Project Size: 175 or 350 h

Resources:
OOIPY: a package for accessing data from Ocean Observatories Initiative

Points to consider in your proposal:

• How would you optimize for accessing many small files?
• Can you parallelize some operations?
• Can you isolate the dependence on the provider?
• Can some data be cached?
• What would be the API?

Getting Started:
Get acquainted yourself with the Orcasound data on AWS: access.md

[EveningShower]

Hello Orcasound team, my name is Youssef Akoudad and I am interested in applying for this project for GSoC2022.
I am a bit late to this so I wanna ask if I still can make a proposal? Also the link for the contributor guide doesn't seem to work, so can I get some help with that too?

[valentina-s]

Hi @EveningShower, you are still welcome to submit a proposal. Let us know if you have any questions! Which link you are referring to (I thought we fixed it)? You can find the Contributor Guide and Proposal Template directly in this repo.

[Benjamintdk]

Thanks @EveningShower for the heads-up, I realized I made an error in correcting the relative links, they both pointed to the same proposal template link, here it is for reference...Have also corrected that and submitted a new PR @valentina-s

[Tanmay-Malviya]

Please let me work on this issue. I am aspirant who wishes to join Gsoc and work for your organization