Would it suffice to assign a version number and corresponding timestamp
to the standard name table each time the table changes?
Based on your initial request, I've set up the new website so the URLs
for the table are:
http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cf/documents/cf-standard-names/1/cf-standard-name-table.html
http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cf/documents/cf-standard-names/1/cf-standard-name-table.xml
Starting at 1 (current table), the version number would increase by 1
each time a set of changes is made to the table.
We could perhaps also modify the schema for the table to include
<version_number> and <last_modified> elements...
Thanks,
Kyle
Roy Lowry wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> On travel so entering the discussion late....
>
> I think there is a slight misunderstanding about what I need. What I require is a label and a timestamp to represent each given state of the Standard Name list as a whole plus the ability to recreate the list as it was at any of these checkpoints. I do not need versioning of individual standard names, just timestamps of when they were last modified and access to the way they were before change.
>
> Serving the list via the NDG Vocabulary server will give me all this. My idea would be to load the list as we have now, calling that version zero. Each time a batch of changes (new names or changes to existing names) are approved, I would add them to the back database end and this list version number would increment by one. Providing there is good communication between Alison and myself this should work in practice. It is down to the CF community whether they make any use of these labels, but they might well be found useful.
>
> Cheers, Roy.
>
>
>>>> Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> 09/22/06 8:50 AM >>>
>>>>
> Dear Lex
>
> Quite so. The standard name table should and does accommodate the need for
> various definitions of quantities, alternative, generic and specific. We need
> to have names for the concepts people actually want to use. If different groups
> use different concepts, that's fine so long as the definitions are clear.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
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