Hi Luis
Funny you should suggest this .. .we're on the same path too.
Suffice to say, if you can live with your temporary name space, we'll be able
to propose something later this year ... (with a cf domain rather than ncar).
Cheers
Bryan
On Thursday 30 March 2006 19:00, Luis Bermudez wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> We need unique identifiers so we can better describe the information
> we are sending in XML files. This is to support Feature catalogues,
> ISO -19115, SensorML etc.
>
> Is there an official namespace for CF standard names ?
>
> If not then we could we create a namespace like the following:
>
> urn:edu:ucar:cf:standard_name:entry
> urn:edu:ucar:cf:standard_name:canonical_units
>
> and then for a particular entry we can uniquely identify it by saying:
>
> - urn:edu:ucar:cf:standard_name:entry#air_density
> - urn:edu:ucar:cf:standard_name:entry#kg_m-3 (needs a little bit of
> massage)
>
> At MMI we are using a temporal namespace (http://marinemetadata.org/
> 2005/02/cf), but we are looking forward to have a synchronize
> ontology with your publish XML file, so we can have real time
> mappings with other standard dictionaries.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luis
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Luis Bermudez Ph.D.
> Software Engineer
> MMI Liaison - http://marinemetadata.org
> bermudez at mbari.org
> Tel: (831) 775-1929
> Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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Received on Mon Apr 03 2006 - 08:17:20 BST
