MetacatUI

I think we can just consider the UI needing to switch between node baseUrls. Both the MN and CN endpoints for querying, authorization, and (eventually) viewing and downloading objects should be the same and only differ in their baseUrl.

It's a little tricky for things like the registryUrl and such that still very much rely on the old Metacat code. But I assume we just won't show anything about "signing in" or "signing up".

We also don't have the "package" service. Nor the "publish" service on the CN (or even codified in the DataONE MN API).

For my money, I like the idea of having search results link to a #quickview/{pid} page.

This would display the citation (like it is in the search results), package contents (also in the index from parsing the ORE objects) and additional metadata fields from the index (coverage, abstract, methods, etc).

This #quickview would work for either MN or CN deployments because it would only use the query() endpoint. To keep it as general as possible, we might exclude things like the "Publish" and "Download package" options because the CN does not support those operations.