Lowry, Roy K wrote:
Hello Martin,
There is another possible solution to your problem, which we are looking at for
dealing with a data source flag to be used with the GEBCO bathymetric grid.
This is to put a URI base into an attribute that when concatenated with a flag
values gives the flag definition from a vocabulary server. For example, having
a flag_definition attribute like:
URI_base='http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/GGS1/current/'
For a flag value of 1, the resulting URL is:
http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/GGS1/current/1
which is a live NERC Vocabulary Server URL returning the flag definition
attributes in a SKOS document.
I appreciate that this moves away from fully self-contained CF files and that a
standardised syntax for the URI base encoding is required, but I think this
provides a scalable solution to the flag definition problem.
Cheers, Roy.
Hi Roy:
If I was an application trying to use this feature, i would like to be able to
download all the possible values for this flag enumeration with one call to
your server. Is that possible?
I guess the other concern with external tables is ensuring that the writer and
the reader really have the same table. Is there some way to ensure that?
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