Dear Nan, John, Jeff
I think variable attributes are generally better than global attributes,
because it's possible or indeed likely that you might have data from different
sources in the same file. I prefer data variables to describe themselves. We
can provide global attributes as a default for
Hi Jonathan,
My vote would go to something that is both human and machine-readable. There
are standards designed for this such as JSON. Some might consider this comes
down on the side of the machine more than the human, but I find once I get my
in I can read JSON much easier than XML.
If
For what it is worth, we migrated a lot of our systems metadata and config to
JSON and it works like a charm. The primary reason was to enable humans and
computers to co exist better. We tried XML but JSON won the day for us.
Regards
Pk
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Dear Jim
Following Don's comment, if you'd be happy with a standard region name of
contiguous_united_states, and since no-one else has objected, I think we
should agree to that. (We can omit of_america; I would expect people to know
where the united_kingdom is without
Heres a few comments on this discussion from my POV:
1) to summarize whats already in CF1.6:
section A9.2:
It is strongly recommended that there should be a station variable
(which may be of any type) with the attribute cf_role=”timeseries_id”,
whose values uniquely identify the stations.
It
Dear Chris
I was hoping that someone else might respond to this, because there was a
discussion not so long ago on this email list about a similar issue.
I'm working on a format for storing the output from a particle
tracking model. Once we're happy with it, we'll post here for
feedback, but
Dear Markus
Welcome to CF.
1) To what degree are qualifications part of the standard_name? In the
guidelines for constructing standard_names, qualifications such as _in_air or
_due_to_dry_aerosol are separated from the standard name, while they are
included with some standard_names in the
Jonathan,
I'm fine with contiguous_united_states_of_america or
contiguous_united_states.
Jim
On 9/16/2011 11:54 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
Dear Jim
Following Don's comment, if you'd be happy with a standard region name of
contiguous_united_states, and since no-one else has objected, I
