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#95: Development of CF 1.5 Data Model -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: markh | Owner: [email protected] Type: task | Status: new Priority: medium | Milestone: Component: cf-conventions | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Comment (by taylor13): From a user's perspective, I've always interpreted global attributes as covering all the variables in a file, and a variable attribute as only applying to a particular variable. So in effect, I would use a global attribute simply as a shorthand way of providing information, so that I wouldn't have to repeat it for each and every variable. Having not read much of the discussion about this, I would think that software could unambiguously interpret the metadata simply by converting all global attributes to variable attributes. If a global and variable attribute had the same name (e.g., "comment"), you would have a problem if they were inconsistent, but I would say whoever wrote the data messed up. best regards, Karl p.s. I just read Bryan's posting, which I think might say about the same thing. -- Ticket URL: <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/95#comment:84> CF Metadata <http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/> CF Metadata This message came from the CF Trac system. To unsubscribe, without unsubscribing to the regular cf-metadata list, send a message to "[email protected]" with "unsubscribe cf-metadata" in the body of your message.
