Hi Nan,
Within ACDD the guidance is to use:
Metadata_Conventions = "Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0";
This is documented at the top of the Unidata page but not within the
listed HTML tables which I think makes it easy to overlook.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html
-Dave
On 12/21/2011 1:53 PM, Nan Galbraith wrote:
Hi all -
I'm certain that this has been discussed, but I can't
find it anywhere in the email archive, or on the trac site.
Don't we allow a compound (comma separated) string
in the global attribute 'Conventions'?
Because there are new, complimentary conventions
available - like the ACDD (discovery attributes) - it would
be very handy to allow multiple
conventions to be specified
in a single attribute: "CF-1.6,
ACDD, OceanSITESv2.1.2".
Here's the text from the current version of the cf-conventions
document:
> 2.6.1. Identification of
Conventions
> > We recommend that netCDF files that follow these
conventions
> indicate this by setting the NUG defined global attribute
Conventions
> to the string value "CF-1.6". The string is interpreted as a
> directory name relative to a directory that is a repository
of
> documents describing sets of discipline-specific conventions.
I'm not sure about the use of the directory structure in the
quoted section of the standard; is that actually used by a
lot of software? Would a separate attribute providing the
URL for the convention be more flexible/useful?
Thanks -
Nan
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