Re: [CF-metadata] CF checker as script

2013-09-25 Thread Lauret Olivier
Dear Petra, If you are familiar with Python language, you can try and install this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cfchecker https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cfchecker Best regards, Olivier. Olivier Lauret Project Engineer, CLS Satellite Oceanography Division, Environmental

Re: [CF-metadata] CF checker as script

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Decker
Dear Petra, I have created such a checker for similar purposes. We are using it on the command line as well as on the web. It supports CF 1.0 to 1.5. Support for 1.6 is in development. The checker is written in purely in python with a few relatively easily installable dependencies (see README).

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-checker as a script

2013-09-25 Thread Schultz, Martin
Dear Petra, we developed such a script at Forschungszentrum Juelich: http://redmine.iek.fz-juelich.de/projects/cfchecker. My colleague Michael Decker (m.dec...@fz-juelich.de) will be happy to assist you if you have questions. The tool has been developed in python. Best regards, Martin

Re: [CF-metadata] Are ensembles a compelling use case for group-aware metadata? (CZ)

2013-09-25 Thread Steve Hankin
On 9/24/2013 9:45 PM, Charlie Zender wrote: It is not my place to determine whether there is a consensus, or how close we are, but it's clear to me there is no consensus yet. Bryan Lawrence, Steve Hankin, Jonathan Gregory, Karl Taylor, and Philip Cameron-Smith are not on board. I hope they

Re: [CF-metadata] Are ensembles a compelling use case for group-aware metadata? (CZ)

2013-09-25 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
Hi All, I think Steve's email (below) is a fair summary of how I see the current state of the discussion too. In order to move the discussion forward, I have put forward below a simple strawman suggestion that is very limited, but which I think would capture the most useful piece of