Dear Uwe:
You can look here: http://marinemetadata.org/orrcf for information about
using our representation of the CF Standard Names and example related
queries.
Carlos
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Lowry, Roy K. wrote:
> Dear Uwe,
>
> It exists. A copy of the Standard Names is served through the NERC
> Vocabulary Server (http://www.bodc.ac.uk/products/web_services/vocab/).
> The references to the Standard Names list are:
>
> Live terms: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P071/current/
> Deprecated terms: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P072/current/
>
> These list addresses may be incorporated into either the SOAP or HTTP-POX
> APIs described in the URL reference above.
>
> Individual Standard Names are addressed through BODC-assigned opaque
> identifiers such as:
>
> http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P072/17/CFSN0012
>
> The associated canonical units will be found in references containing
> 'P061' in the mappings section of the payload XML document, such as
> http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P061/37/KMP2"; />.
>
> The Standard Name list is also maintained in the MMI Ontology Registry and
> Repository which again provides programmatic access through an API. I'll
> leave it to the MMI folks to provide you with pointers to the detail.
>
> Cheers, Roy.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:
> cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Uwe Rosebrock
> Sent: 26 May 2011 00:41
> To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: [CF-metadata] WS querying cf meta data catalog
>
> Hi all,
>
> is there or is there a plan to establish a web service to query the
> standard_name list and units programatically (without human interaction)?
> would such a service be useful as vocabulary by anybody?
>
> Cheers
> Uwe
>
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