Things are hard to predict, especially in the future. :-)
I agree with your position on groups (as well as on predictions) , but
this discussion
has also made me think that, to the extent that the proponents are
advocating for a
richer structure for attributes, that's something we should
On 9/19/2013 3:58 PM, Schultz, Martin wrote:
Now, here is another use case, which we haven't implemented yet - partly
because we didn't see how it can be done in a CF consistent way:
While there has been a definition of a standard file layout for data from multiple
stations (a contribution
Hi all:
A few thoughts from my (possibly limited) POV.
1. Best strategy for storing very large collections of data in flat
files like netcdf?
- store coherent chunks of the dataset in each file. Seems like a good
file size these days is 100M - 1 Gbyte.
- choose coherence by deciding on the
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your continued engagement and responses.
Looks like CF hasn't the appetite for group hierarchies anytime soon.
I'll report the lessons learned in this fruitful discussion to our
NASA WG next week. My concluding (for now) remarks are interleaved.
Best,
Charlie
Le
Hi.
I am currently building netCDF-4 files that use groups. I'd love it if CF were
modified such that these files would be mostly compliant (which would require
nothing more than acceptance of groups and hierarchical inheritance of
'file-level' attributes). I am well aware that my use case
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
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
Hi Martin,
Thank you for taking the time to address my 3 points about ensembles,
and for adding some new examples. Response interleaved...
Le 19/09/2013 14:58, Schultz, Martin a écrit :
Hi Charlie,
very good and extensive explanation of the potential use for groups
and group-aware metadata.
... I should have read this first. Many of the same points!
Bryan
On 19 September 2013 22:58, m.schu...@fz-juelich.de wrote:
Hi Charlie,
very good and extensive explanation of the potential use for groups
and group-aware metadata. Yet, I have a few remarks (which may in part
reveal
Hi Charlie,
very good and extensive explanation of the potential use for groups and
group-aware metadata. Yet, I have a few remarks (which may in part reveal that
I should probably read the preamble of the CF convention again ;-):
Point 1: How does the user know she has all the
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