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Hi all - I'm certain that this has been discussed, but I can't find it anywhere in the email archive, or on the trac site. Don't we allow a compound (comma separated) string in the global attribute 'Conventions'? Because there are new, complimentary conventions available - like the ACDD (discovery attributes) - it would be very handy to allow multiple conventions to be specified in a single attribute: "CF-1.6, ACDD, OceanSITESv2.1.2". Here's the text from the current version of the cf-conventions document: > 2.6.1. Identification of Conventions > > We recommend that netCDF files that follow these conventions > indicate this by setting the NUG defined global attribute Conventions > to the string value "CF-1.6". The string is interpreted as a > directory name relative to a directory that is a repository of > documents describing sets of discipline-specific conventions. I'm not sure about the use of the directory structure in the quoted section of the standard; is that actually used by a lot of software? Would a separate attribute providing the URL for the convention be more flexible/useful? Thanks - Nan -- ******************************************************* * Nan Galbraith (508) 289-2444 * * Upper Ocean Processes Group Mail Stop 29 * * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution * * Woods Hole, MA 02543 * ******************************************************* |
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