Ethan,
Two more topics to consider as additions to your list:
1. "UGRID" -- Of interest to the coastal ocean modeling community, and
stuck in a holding pattern for quite a long time, is the harmonization
of mesh/unstructured grid coordinates into the main body of CF. The
work is mostly completed ...
2. "Aggregation" -- CF structures to link multiple files into larger
conceptual datasets. Time series aggregations, union aggregations
(associated variables in separate files), and ensemble membership are
the most obvious applications of this. Another important application
is "tiled grids" (ref. the "gridspec" proposal).
- Steve
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On 3/27/2016 9:24 PM, Ethan Davis wrote:
Hi all,
As some of you have heard, we are holding a meeting to discuss current
and future netCDF-CF efforts and directions. The meeting will be held
on 24-26 May 2016 in Boulder, CO, USA at the UCAR Center Green facility.
This meeting is organized by the “Advancing netCDF-CF for Geoscience”
project [1] which has been funded by the US NSF EarthCube program. The
project goals include several specific CF development efforts, both
standards development and software prototyping. (We are just starting
to spin-up community conversations around these specific goals for
drafting CF extensions.) Another aspect of the funded project is
community engagement including with the existing CF community,
geoscience domains that have not been very involved in CF, and other
standards bodies (e.g., OGC). These and other topics are on the
current list of possible agenda items. Please let us know if you have
other agenda items in mind.
The current list of possible agenda items includes:
* Investigate using features of the netCDF enhanced data model to
improve/simplify the CF Discrete Sampling Geometries (which
includes point, sounding, and trajectory data types)
* Drafting a CF enhancement that would add support for complex data
footprints (e.g., river segments and drainage basins)
* Further develop the CFRadial proposal for representing Radar data
* Adding features to better support satellite data
* Adding CF support for hierarchical groups for organizing data and
metadata
* Enhancing CF to support Linked Data / semantic technology concepts
* Harmonizing CF grid mapping with OGC CRS (coordinate reference
systems), possibly with WKT
* Adding CF support for attribute namespaces and the use of URI
prefixes in attribute values
* Improved support for dimensionless data variables, logarithmic
scales, differences, etc.
While we wish we could host all those interested in attending, given
the available meeting space and the number of project participants, we
are asking members of the CF community that are interested in
attending to contact us directly and let us know which aspects of CF
are of interest to you and your goals for the meeting. Please submit
your expressions of interest by Monday, 4 April 2016. We plan to
invite participants by Friday, 8 April 2016.
Travel and other information will be on the meeting page [2] later
this week.
Also, for anyone attending EGU in Vienna in April, we will have a
splinter meeting (SMP32) to discuss netCDF-CF. The splinter meeting
will be held on Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 15:30 in room 2.96.
Thank you,
Meeting Organizers
Ethan Davis, UCAR Unidata
Charlie Zender, Univ of CA, Irvine
David Arctur, Univ of TX, Austin
Dave Santek, Univ of WI, Madison / SSEC
Kevin O’Brien, Univ of WA/JISAO and NOAA/PMEL
Aleksandar Jelenak, The HDF Group
Mike Dixon, NCAR/EOL
[1] http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541031
[2] http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/events/2016CFWorkshop/
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