Dear All,

Following our recent discussions on improving consistency across the standard 
name table, Robert Muetzelfeldt has made a KWIC Index of the current table and 
this is now available to view on the CF website: 
http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/65/build/kwic_index_for_cf_standard_names_v65.html.
 Links to the KWIC Index can also be found on the Standard Names and Documents 
web pages.

Please have a look - we are thinking of preparing a KWIC Index view of all 
future versions of the standard name table and comments are invited. Robert is 
happy to receive feedback and suggestions for possible enhancements to the 
index, either in this discussion thread or via personal email.

For convenience, Robert's explanation of the Index is reproduced below:
> It consists of, first, an alphabetic list of all the terms (keywords) found 
> in all Standard Names, followed by the KWIC index itself, i.e. a page-centred 
> list of all keywords, surrounded on either side by the full Standard Name in 
> which it 
> appears.  Each page-centred keyword can, and usually does, appear multiple 
> times on successive lines, once for each Standard Name that it appears in.   
> All the terms that appear on either side of the page-centred keyword are in 
> fact 
> links, taking you up or down the KWIC index to where that term is itself the 
> page-centred keyword.
> 
> The idea is that this makes it very easy to navigate around the full set of 
> Standard Names.  It is not really designed for picking up inconsistencies, 
> but I guess that it is one of the tools that could be used to do that.

Best wishes,
Alison

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Alison Pamment                                                         Tel: +44 
1235 778065
NCAS/Centre for Environmental Data Analysis    Email: alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory     
R25, 2.22
Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K.


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