Dear all Encouraged by comments on my standard name grammar, I have updated it for version 14 of the standard name table, published yesterday. Doing the update was an interesting exercise. Initially most of the new names could not be parsed, but it was fairly straightforward to add new phrases to the lexicon until the parsing succeeded. The new version is at http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~jonathan/CF_metadata/14.1/
You can imagine that proposals for standard names could be guided by such a grammar, in which proposers would indicate how the lexicon and syntax should be extended if required, as part of their proposal. If no such extensions are needed, an automatic tool could help proposers construct standard names from existing grammar, and you'd expect they would be acceptable once they'd passed through a manual anti-green-dog filter. In another email, I will comment on some specific issues with version 14. Cheers Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
