Hi All: I am old and slow, and I must be missing something, because at this point most of the discussion has been about the desirability of files with groups and hierarchies. Again, unless I am missing something, there already are data providers who are distributing data using groups and hierarchies, including at least one very large data provider, and they obviously feel that there is a benefit to such structures. I am not arguing whether they are right or wrong, just that is the reality.
If we start from that premise, then the real questions for discussion are should there be conventions on how groups and hierarchies are used in netcdf4 and hdf5 files, so that a user or software provider will know what to expect, and the second question is if it is deemed desirable to have such conventions, is CF the proper place for them to be developed. My sense it that this is what the original proposers are after. -Roy ********************** "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA." ********************** Roy Mendelssohn Supervisory Operations Research Analyst NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division Southwest Fisheries Science Center 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 e-mail: [email protected] (Note new e-mail address) voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
