hello Roy
I wonder if this could be captured by the notation in the Unidata documentation:
'''
Later, if another group agrees upon some additional conventions for a specific
subset of XXX data, for example time series data, the description of the
additional conventions might be associated with the name "XXX/Time_series", and
files that adhered to these additional conventions would use the global
attribute
:Conventions = "XXX/Time_series" ;
'''
(http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/conventions.html)
Does this provide a mechanism for profiling CF?:
:Conventions = "CF-1.6/mark'sFruityProfile"
Does the profile name "mark'sFruityProfile" get recorded somewhere?
Should this be published, or can I keep it to myself and my friends?
By the nature of the :Conventions declaration I have stated that
"mark'sFruityProfile" is CF compliant, is that enough information?
cheers
mark
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of Lowry, Roy K.
Sent: Thu 29/12/2011 10:08
To: Jonathan Gregory; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Convention attribute
Dear All,
One thought that this debate has brought to mind is what should the practice be
if the file convention is a profile (in the ISO sense) of CF? In other words,
the file conforms to a given version of CF modified by a formally documented
set of extensions (e.g. optional CF attributes declared as mandatory or
additional attributes in the profile's namespace). Should both the CF
convention and the profile name be included? My vote would be yes to avoid
application software having to be aware of all CF profiles, but should there be
any indication that it is a profile rather than an independent parallel
standard?
Cheers, Roy.
________________________________________
From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory [[email protected]]
Sent: 28 December 2011 22:22
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Convention attribute
Dear Mark and Dave
I agree with Dave's answers. If two conventions are used together, it is the
responsibility of the data-writer to guarantee that the metadata supplied is
consistent if there are any overlaps in meaning. A particular case of that is
if the two conventions define attributes with the same names. It has been
suggested that conventions could signal their own name-spaces e.g. CF
attributes could all be prefixed with "cf_" (like the cf_role attribute, which
has been introduced in the new CF section 9). That could help with preventing
collisions of namespaces, but
* it would be cumbersome for writers of files that adhere to only one
convention, which is the usual case, and awkward for programs that read files,
since they would have to check for every attribute by two different names
(with and without the prefix, considering all the data that already exists
without prefixes).
* it doesn't help if the two conventions are inconsistent in their metadata,
whether or not they use similarly named attributes, and this is the more
serious problem, I would argue.
Therefore I don't think this is really a magic solution to get rid of the
potential difficulty. Rather, the writers of conventions have to be aware of
other netCDF conventions that might be used with theirs, and try to use ones
that already exist instead of defining new ones for a given purpose.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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