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

2012-09-24 Thread Simon.Cox
To: Cox, Simon (CESRE, Kensington); jgrayb...@ucsd.edu; cameronsmi...@llnl.gov Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk Subject: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Hello Simon, If you're referring to syntactic duplicates then prov

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

2012-09-24 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
t; To: simon@csiro.au; jgrayb...@ucsd.edu; Cameron-smith, Philip > Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk > Subject: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the > standard_name table > > Hello Simon, > > If you're referring to s

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

2012-09-24 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
gov Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk Subject: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Sorry if this is an ignorant/newbie question, but can I ask if the grammar for CF std_names implicitly provides a check on duplicates? Simon ---

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

2012-09-24 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
_ From: Jonathan Gregory [j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk] Sent: 24 September 2012 17:53 To: Schultz, Martin Cc: Lowry, Roy K.; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Dear Martin, Roy et al. > I understand exactly what you want

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

2012-09-24 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Martin, Roy et al. > 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? I apprecia

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

2012-09-24 Thread Simon.Cox
, Philip Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; Jonathan Gregory; Cox, Simon (CESRE, Kensington) Subject: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Hello Philip/John, As John might remember, I attempted this approach a while back (I think I started in 2004) on another

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

2012-09-23 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
mospheric pollutant. Cheers, Roy. From: Schultz, Martin [m.schu...@fz-juelich.de] Sent: 22 September 2012 17:37 To: Lowry, Roy K.; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: AW: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Hi Roy, exactly!Just how c

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

2012-09-22 Thread John Graybeal
;> From: John Graybeal [mailto:jgrayb...@ucsd.edu] >> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 4:10 PM >> To: Cameron-smith, Philip >> Cc: Jonathan Gregory; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu >> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the >> standard_name

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

2012-09-22 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Schultz, Martin Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:37 AM To: Lowry, Roy K.; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Hi Roy, exactly!Just how can we get there? Cheers, Martin

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

2012-09-22 Thread Schultz, Martin
d? Cheers, Roy. From: CF-metadata [cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Schultz, Martin [m.schu...@fz-juelich.de] Sent: 22 September 2012 16:26 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_n

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

2012-09-22 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
__ From: CF-metadata [cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Schultz, Martin [m.schu...@fz-juelich.de] Sent: 22 September 2012 16:26 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Dear Philip, John and others

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.
gd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of John Graybeal [jgrayb...@ucsd.edu] Sent: 22 September 2012 00:09 To: Cameron-smith, Philip Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; Jonathan Gregory Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table I like this. I may be a step behind, b

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

2012-09-21 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the > standard_name table > > I like this. > > I may be a step behind, but given a grammar parser/generator, we will have > identified the slots. But we will not have identified all the terms that can > fill > those slo

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

2012-09-21 Thread John Graybeal
I like this. I may be a step behind, but given a grammar parser/generator, we will have identified the slots. But we will not have identified all the terms that can fill those slots. I don't think this is a huge challenge. We will have (a) a list of terms already filling those slots, (b) cand

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

2012-09-21 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Gregory > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 9:20 AM > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the > standard_name table > > Dear Martin, Roy, John, Robert > > Reading the la

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

2012-09-18 Thread Bryan Lawrence
e...@ed.ac.uk] > Sent: 14 September 2012 10:18 > To: Lowry, Roy K. > Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; Brown, Juan > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the > standard_name table > > Hello Roy, > > On 14/09/12 08:23, Lowry, Roy K. wrote: > De

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Martin, Roy, John, Robert Reading the last few days' emails all at once I have may have skipped important details; if so, apologies for that. I too am in favour of a grammar, such as my earlier attempt http://climate.ncas.ac.uk/~jonathan/CF_metadata/14.1/ Robert subsequently coded this gramma

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

2012-09-14 Thread Schultz, Martin
] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. September 2012 21:50 An: Schultz, Martin Betreff: Fwd: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table: OFFLINE RESPONSE Hi Martin, I sent the following response to your email to the list this morning, but it has not yet appeared (being

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

2012-09-13 Thread Robert Muetzelfeldt
Hi Martin, Is there some reason why the element must have a flat set of sub-elements, as in your example below?It seems to me that from an XML data-design point-of-view, a neater data model would be: ... See note [1] below ... ...see note [2] below ... ... This design is: - more

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

2012-09-13 Thread Schultz, Martin
Dear all, during the recent discussion on "compound_name" as additional tag in the standard_names.xml file and in relation to track ticket #90 it occurred to me that another useful addition could be to express the "need" of certain variable attributes in this table as well. This refers to