Hello, Rosalyn has very quickly cleared up one problem I was having: I couldn't get the cf-checker to accept my string of 800 flag_meanings. The problem lies in the interpretation of Section 3.5 of the CF Conformance Requirements and Recommendations:
>> >> "The type of the flag_meanings attribute is a string whose value is a >> blank separated list of words or phrases (words connected by >> underscores)." The cf-checker currently interprets "words" as alpha-numeric characters only. This excludes hyphens and abbreviations (as in "Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra", "Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra"), and also "/" and ",", which occurred in my list. My feeling is that the restriction in the cf-checker should be relaxed and the text clarified -- but it would be interesting to know what machine-readability criterea people have in mind for this flag_meanings attribute. Regards, Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: V. Balaji [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 27 October 2009 19:01 > To: Lawrence, Bryan (STFC,RAL,SSTD) > Cc: [email protected]; Weatherall, Pauline; Juckes, Martin > (STFC,RAL,SSTD); Ed Hartnett > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag > valuesinnetcdf cf > > Bryan Lawrence writes: > > > My job is to persist data indefinitely, and I'm relying on vocabulary > > servers ... (and in particular, Roy's ... ) somehow we will persist > > the vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk address, regardless of nerc's future, and of > > ndg's future, although if ac.uk went away we might be in trouble :-). > > Could happen... > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/18/conservatives-defence > > I see nerc.co.uk coming... > -- > > V. Balaji Office: +1-609-452-6516 > Head, Modeling Systems Group, GFDL Home: +1-212-253-6662 > Princeton University Email: [email protected] -- Scanned by iCritical. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
