On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Lowry, Roy K. <[email protected]> wrote:
> This will obviously take time > indeed it will! > and so you're proposing a generic Name with the contaminant specified in > the long name as a stop-gap. This causes me some concern from an > interoperability perspective because it could easily leak out of the oil > contamination community into pesticides, metals and so on > someone else had suggested "contaminant" -- but I liked the idea precisely because it could be used for any number of contaminants -- nice and generic, and usable without need to create a new standard name for everything one might conceivably measure or model. For instance, I work in the "Hazmat" spill biz -- we may be modeling who knows what in the future -- we certainly can't go through a standard name convention process each time someone goes and spills something new. But perhaps a petroleum specific one would be good instead (Or in addition?). > and there is so much potential for synonyms and even misspellings with > plain language descriptions of these. Others in CF may also have views on > establishing this as a precedent. > I'm happy with whatever the CF community thinks is best. > Personally, I would prefer an approach of having a Name specifically > targeted at the SeaOWL measurements > What is the president there? Do we have any standard name specific to a particular instrument? that sure seems like something for the other metadata to me... But if we did do that we should talk to someone at the company and see what they say it measures -- rather than use a term from the marketing materials... > with the possibility of later replacement through deprecation if it > doesn't fit your holistic solution. > let's try to avoid that. I like some spelling of TPH -- it's a commonly used, and would be still useful once we have a more complete solution for oil spill modeling results. -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected]
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