This page is kept for reference. The CF Workshop 2025 took place online, 22–25 September 2025.
The 2025 CF Workshop will be held virtually on 22-25 September 2025. The meeting will run for three hours on each day, 15:00 to 18:00 UTC, plus an informal hour at the end of each day.
Registration for the CF Workshop 2025 is now closed.
The CF Workshop 2025 was held online via Zoom (22–25 September 2025).
All the presentations and notes for the plenary and breakout sessions will be available in this Google Drive folder.
The organizing committee requests that all presentations, in final form, be placed in the CF Metadata Conventions Zenodo Community document repository that provides permanence for the document and a DOI. If you are new to Zenodo, see the Zenodo “Quick Start” page.
| Time (UTC) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00–15:10 | Main | Welcome and Overview of meeting structure [slides] | David Hassell (NCAS / University of Reading) |
| 15:10–15:40 | Main | Introduction to CF, what’s going into CF 1.13 | |
| Introduction [slides] | Ellie Fisher (CEDA / NCAS) | ||
| CF-1.13 [slides] | Sadie Bartholomew (NCAS / University of Reading) | ||
| 15:40–15:55 | Main | Science talk: Experiences using cf-python to standardise outputs from cyclone tracking softwares | Jack Atkinson (ICCS Cambridge) |
| 15:55–16:10 | Main | Science talk: Evaluating Large Language Models for Standard Names Generation in CF Conventions [slides] · [DOI] | Mario Diez Fernandez (University of Cantabria) |
| 16:10–16:25 | Main | Screen break / coffee break | |
| 16:25–16:35 | Main | Introductions to Day 1 hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 16:35–18:00 | HACKATHONS (parallel sessions) | ||
| Room 1 | SGRID Conventions 📝 | Chris Barker | |
| Room 2 | Precipitation-related standard names 📝 | Alison Pamment (NCAS / CEDA) | |
| Room 3 | Guilherme Castelao | ||
| 18:00–18:45 | Main | Social time |
| Time (UTC) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00–15:10 | Main | Intro to Day 2 | TBD |
| 15:10–15:30 | Main | Governance updates, round-up of recent developments [slides] | Ethan Davis (NSF Unidata) |
| 15:30–15:50 | Main | Science talk: Tools for mapping between NetCDF and GRIB [slides] | Adam Jacobs (UK Met Office) |
| 15:50–16:00 | Main | Introductions to Day 2 hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 16:10–16:25 | Main | Screen break / coffee break | |
| 16:25–17:45 | HACKATHONS (parallel sessions) | ||
| Room 1 | Mapping CF Metadata and WMO GRIB2 Metadata 📝 | Sébastien Villaume (ECMWF) | |
| Room 2 | Housekeeping – website maintenance & improvements 📝 | Luke Marsden | |
| Room 3 | (Digital) accessibility of the CF Convention document 📝 | Sadie Bartholomew (NCAS / University of Reading) | |
| 17:45–18:15 | Main | Day 1 and Day 2 hackathon wrap-ups | All hackathon chairs |
| 18:15–19:00 | Main | Social time |
| Time (UTC) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00–15:30 | Main | Roadmap introduction / recap [slides] | Luke Marsden (Norwegian Meteorological Institute / University Centre in Svalbard) |
| What is the roadmap? | |||
| Why do we need it? | |||
| Which communities are we engaging with? | |||
| What did we do last year? | |||
| 15:30–15:45 | Main | Introductions to Day 3 (roadmap) hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 15:45–17:30 | Roadmap HACKATHONS (parallel sessions) (includes break 16:45–17:00) |
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| Room 1 | Vocabularies 📝 | Alison Pamment | |
| Room 2 | Discovery and Provenance metadata 📝 | David Hassell | |
| Room 3 | Example datasets 📝 | Luke Marsden, Ag Stephens | |
| 17:30–18:15 | Main | Social time |
| Time (UTC) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00–15:15 | Main | Introductions to Day 4 (roadmap) hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 15:15–17:00 | Roadmap HACKATHONS (parallel sessions) (includes screen break 16.30–16.40) |
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| Room 1 | File formats / data model 📝 | Sadie Bartholomew | |
| Room 2 | AI (LLMs) 📝 | Ag Stephens | |
| Room 3 | CF tools 📝 | David Hassell | |
| 17:00–18:00 | Main | Roadmap hackathons wrap-up and next steps | All hackathon chairs |
| 18:00–18:45 | Main | Social time |
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