Dear all: CF is quite light on global metadata and metadata suitable for data discovery and interoperability. Within the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST, see http://www.ghrsst.org) we are updating our product technical specifications (GDS) documentation. We want to provide more flexibility and interoperability with our products in a 'future proof' manner. GHRSST is handling 25Gb data per day in an international context with many thousands of files in NRT.
Our latest specs. have included the NetCDF Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery (ACDD http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html) and this has raised some questions about our CF compliance. I realise that CF allows extensions, but what I am asking for is some guidance on the future aspirations of CF for discovery metadata. I like the ACDD recommendations and Ideally, I would like to be able to write in our GHRSST data products that we are fully CF compliant. Does the CF community anticipate taking up the ACDD recommendations in the near future? What are peoples thoughts on CF and improved metadata discovery? I look forward to your comments and advice, Best regards Craig Donlon (Chair of the GHRSST International Science Team) -- Dr Craig Donlon Principal Scientist for Oceans and Ice ESA/ESTEC (EOP-SME) Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk The Netherlands t: +31 (0)715 653687 f: +31 (0)715 655675 e: [email protected] m:+31 (0)627 013244 (*new*) Skype ID:crazit altE-mail: [email protected]
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