Hi Bryan,
How about a straw man encoding of this concept in CF with a few words of
descriptive help (to provide the scope of the solution that you're proposing)?
(This is about the best level of formality in the standards process that we can
reasonably manage at the moment.)
- steve
P.S. One specialized strain of COARDS has for many years carried a global
attribute
:alert_on_open = "some informational string";
which allows the creator of the file to include a message that responsible
applications should display for the user when they first open a dataset.
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Bryan Lawrence wrote:
> hi Manuel
>
> Obviously we've been worrying about this, and at the moment have the
> conditions of use in metadata outside the file ...
>
> ... however, the concept of having a pointer to a license inside a file had
> escaped me, and it oughtn't to have :-) :-) It's a good one, and would be
> analogous I think to the copyright claims in code etc ...
>
> It might be interesting for us to talk about this offline ...
>
> Meanwhile, it would be good to standardise on this within CF, as it would give
> code a chance to find and display conditions of use to users in an automagic
> way.
>
> I would have thought we could have an optional global attribute of license,
> which could either be text or a uri. (I like the idea of license better
> because it's briefer, and reflects what one wants to happen).
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan
>
> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:19, Manuel Fuentes wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I know this is a question a lot of people don't
> > care about. Unfortunately, I have to care :-(
> >
> > Is there a way in CF to specify any conditions
> > of use or restriction on the data contained in
> > a netcdf file ? For example, something like:
> >
> > // global attributes:
> > :conditions_of_use = "Data is restricted to academic users only"
> >
> > or
> >
> > :conditions_of_use = "http://data.ecmwf.int/data/d/license/"
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Manuel
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