Re: [CF-metadata] Swath observational data

2009-11-22 Thread John Caron
tjn98 wrote: Dear All, I think there may be two distinct cases here: 1) Local cross-referencing, where it is only necessary to establish a relationship within a well-defined grouping of files, 2) Referencing to a universal resource, such as a specific file held on a server. For the form

[CF-metadata] Multiple file datasets

2009-11-22 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear all Using metadata to describe a file internally is much more robust than encoding filenames in a file, and therefore seems preferable to me. I am concerned that the gridspec proposal suggests using relative filenames in an attribute in the file (associate_files). If I understand correctly, t