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Chris A. Mattmann commented on TIKA-1577: ----------------------------------------- Rishi: Please see: https://wiki.apache.org/tika/ScientificDataFormatTextRepresentation Comments inline: {blockquote} Chris - what do you mean by "tabular"? Were you thinking about an HTML table representation instead? If so, what are your ideas on representing three-dimensional (and higher) arrays using HTML tables? {blockquote} You can represent an N dimensional matrix as a table, easily, just have that many <td>s, each one representing the cols, and <tr>s each one representing the rows. [~gostep] and I even prototyped this. {blockquote} I was leaning on UL/LI because it was the approach already being utilized by the existing Tika netCDF variable content extraction code (i.e. for attribute extraction) and because a two-tag list structure is much easier think about than a three-tag table structure when applied to n-dimensional arrays. For example, UL/LI's are often nested (and developers expect them to be) whereas HTML tables are often used with a maximum of two-dimensions. {blockquote} See above. > NetCDF Data Extraction > ---------------------- > > Key: TIKA-1577 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1577 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: handler, parser > Affects Versions: 1.7 > Reporter: Ann Burgess > Assignee: Ann Burgess > Labels: features, handler > Fix For: 1.9 > > Original Estimate: 504h > Remaining Estimate: 504h > > A netCDF classic or 64-bit offset dataset is stored as a single file > comprising two parts: > - a header, containing all the information about dimensions, attributes, and > variables except for the variable data; > - a data part, comprising fixed-size data, containing the data for variables > that don't have an unlimited dimension; and variable-size data, containing > the data for variables that have an unlimited dimension. > The NetCDFparser currently extracts the "header part". > -- text extracts file Dimensions and Variables > -- metadata extracts Global Attributes > We want the option to extract the "data part" of NetCDF files. > Lets use the NetCDF test file for our dev testing: > tika/tika-parsers/src/test/resources/test-documents/sresa1b_ncar_ccsm3_0_run1_200001.nc > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)