Dan Hollis wrote: > If opaque non-CF metadata are permitted then I’m not sure of the benefit of > CF requiring the rest of the attributes to be self-describing (however good > that might be in principle). This implies that either non-CF attributes > should be prohibited or the principle of self-describing files should be > dropped. > > Am I missing something? What do others think?
I've always the self-describing principle to apply to the data, not to the metadata. In fact, the data becomes self describing because of the metadata. Prohibiting additional metadata will cause severe trouble in various fields of application, for instance when there is a requirements to support multiple metadata conventions (ACDD comes to mind) that are supplemental to CF. Maarten -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/273#issuecomment-649500189 This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
