Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread John Graybeal
I think Roy's subsequent emails have correctly seized the essence of my first comment. MMI is a colloquial term (sorry) for the vocabulary service run by the Marine Metadata Interoperability project, at mmisw.org. Its services are accessed from anywhere, the vocabularies are stored at the serv

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
Hi All, I agree too. The challenge is: how do we get there from here, and who will do it, while maintaining backwards compatibility? That barrier has been too big. Hence, my proposal is to leave what we have in place, and take a step which will make our current lives easier, while gently re

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Schultz, Martin
Hi Roy, exactly!Just how can we get there? Cheers, Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Lowry, Roy K. [mailto:r...@bodc.ac.uk] Gesendet: Samstag, 22. September 2012 18:24 An: Schultz, Martin; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Betreff: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful exten

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Hello Martin, I understand exactly what you want - or at least I thing I do. I think that you would like to enter a URL representing the concept 'carbon monoxide' and get back a document giving you all the Standard Names pertaining to carbon monoxide. Am I right? My vision - which I'm pretty

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Schultz, Martin
Dear Philip, John and others, I take the point that indeed a grammar approach would be the solution to my problem. However, the grammar as it once stood based on Jonathan's python program (which indeed works quite nicely) unfortunately doesn't help with respect to the problem that I inten

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Hello Philip/John, As John might remember, I attempted this approach a while back (I think I started in 2004) on another parameter vocabulary (the BODC vocabulary subsequently adopted by SeaDataNet). I have yet to succeed in implementing it operationally. This was because of two issues: 1) I