Re: [CF-metadata] Pre-proposal for "charset"

2017-02-22 Thread Bob Simons - NOAA Federal
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Chris Barker wrote: > > Another note: > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal < > bob.sim...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >> * "HTML" - the chars are to be interpreted as an array of Strings with >> HTML content, using the

Re: [CF-metadata] Pre-proposal for "charset"

2017-02-22 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal < bob.sim...@noaa.gov> wrote: > As for needing a different subject for the email: I'm lumping together 2 > new related attribute names: "charset=..." and "data_type=string|char" so > that the information stored in char variables in

Re: [CF-metadata] Pre-proposal for "charset"

2017-02-22 Thread Chris Barker
Another note: On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal < bob.sim...@noaa.gov> wrote: > * "HTML" - the chars are to be interpreted as an array of Strings with > HTML content, using the ISO-8859-1 charset. Non-ISO-8859-1 must be encoded > using the

Re: [CF-metadata] Pre-proposal for "charset"

2017-02-22 Thread Bob Simons - NOAA Federal
No. CF section 9.5 says: "The variable carrying the cf_role attribute may have any data type." And that makes sense, because some profile_id might be an integer and theoretically could be a single char. Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:15:46 + > From: Jonathan Gregory >

Re: [CF-metadata] Pre-proposal for "charset"

2017-02-22 Thread Bob Simons - NOAA Federal
As for needing a different subject for the email: I'm lumping together 2 new related attribute names: "charset=..." and "data_type=string|char" so that the information stored in char variables in netcdf-3 files can be easily and unambiguously interpreted. You are correct. My proposal is for

Re: [CF-metadata] Pre-proposal for "charset"

2017-02-22 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Bob Thnaks for the helpful example. Yes, I agree that on the basis of netCDF alone you can't tell whether it's a string or a 10-char array. However, the cf_role is a string-valued attribute, according to the CF convention, so it must be a string. I expect that for contents of netCDF files

Re: [CF-metadata] Extension of Discrete Sampling Geometries for Simple Features

2017-02-22 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:23 AM, David Blodgett wrote: > We will meet on google hangouts at 8am CT on March 7th If you’d like to be > added to the calendar invite, please let me know. > Please invite me -- though it's pretty early for me -- aren't timezones fun! Darn round

[CF-metadata] Standard name and area type tables - February update

2017-02-22 Thread alison.pamment
Dear All, The standard name and area type tables have both been updated. The standard name table is now at version 41 and the area type table is at version 6, both dated 22 February 2017. The changes to both tables have also been published in the NERC Vocabulary Server. The changes are listed