Dear Uwe, It exists. A copy of the Standard Names is served through the NERC Vocabulary Server (http://www.bodc.ac.uk/products/web_services/vocab/). The references to the Standard Names list are:
Live terms: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P071/current/ Deprecated terms: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P072/current/ These list addresses may be incorporated into either the SOAP or HTTP-POX APIs described in the URL reference above. Individual Standard Names are addressed through BODC-assigned opaque identifiers such as: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P072/17/CFSN0012 The associated canonical units will be found in references containing 'P061' in the mappings section of the payload XML document, such as <skos:minorMatch rdf:resource="http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P061/37/KMP2"; />. The Standard Name list is also maintained in the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository which again provides programmatic access through an API. I'll leave it to the MMI folks to provide you with pointers to the detail. Cheers, Roy. -----Original Message----- From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Uwe Rosebrock Sent: 26 May 2011 00:41 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: [CF-metadata] WS querying cf meta data catalog Hi all, is there or is there a plan to establish a web service to query the standard_name list and units programatically (without human interaction)? would such a service be useful as vocabulary by anybody? Cheers Uwe _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
