Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formalor flexible

2009-07-29 Thread Renata McCoy
The order has been changed, Greetings, Renata On Jul 29, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Karl Taylor wrote: Renata, One of the CF folks noticed a "gotcha" on one of the CF web pages (see below). Could you please move folders "12" and "current" to the top of the list of folders listed on: http://cf-p

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formalor flexible

2009-07-29 Thread Karl Taylor
Renata, One of the CF folks noticed a "gotcha" on one of the CF web pages (see below). Could you please move folders "12" and "current" to the top of the list of folders listed on: http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/current/standard-name-table This might

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formal or flexible

2009-07-29 Thread Lowry, Roy K
Hi Bryan, We have the technology and some of the content. I have been maintaining a mapping between the Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) used by SeaDataNet and Standard Names to allow us to automatically populate SeaDataNet metadata documents from CF data files. (I do have to confess that

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formalor flexible

2009-07-29 Thread Stephen Emsley
Hi Roy >> Incidentally, I'm wondering where Steve got his definition of >> 'concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water' Me too! I took it from a document that I started writing before version 12 of the standard name table. I must have accidentally stumbled across an old version of the stan

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formal or flexible

2009-07-29 Thread Bryan Lawrence
Hi Roy Glad that it looks like Steve's specfiic problem isn't a problem given the name change and definition you found. However: You've opened Pandora's box a bit (we've been hammering around the edges for a while). I can feel the o-word coming on ... It's been incoming in the family chemistr

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formal or flexible

2009-07-29 Thread Lowry, Roy K
Hi Bryan, Steve's query presents something of a Standard Names crossroads. 'Chlorophyll' is a very generic word covering a group of pigments (chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b, divinyl chlorophyll-a, etc.) that some analytical techniques can resolve whilst others cannot. 'Chlorophyll' is also a prox