[CF-metadata] Standard names KWIC Index

From: Bärring Lars <Lars.Barring>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 11:24:37 +0000

Dear Robert, Alison,

Having not much previous experience of a KWIC index I had a quick look at the web page. And my impression is that it would be very useful when looking for already existing standard names, and even more useful when constructing new ones based on existing patterns.

I think this is a very helpful initiative.

An idea would be to link the red word of each line to the corresponding entry in the standard name table? I this way one would have easy access to the descriptive text and canonical unit.

Many thanks,
Lars

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Till: Robert Muetzelfeldt (r.muetzelfeldt at ed.ac.uk); CF-metadata (cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu)
?mne: [CF-metadata] Standard names KWIC Index
Dear All,
Following our recent discussions on improving consistency across the standard name table, Robert Muetzelfeldt has made a KWIC Index of the current table and this is now available to view on the CF website: http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/65/build/kwic_index_for_cf_standard_names_v65.html. Links to the KWIC Index can also be found on the Standard Names and Documents web pages.
Please have a look - we are thinking of preparing a KWIC Index view of all future versions of the standard name table and comments are invited. Robert is happy to receive feedback and suggestions for possible enhancements to the index, either in this discussion thread or via personal email.
For convenience, Robert's explanation of the Index is reproduced below:
> It consists of, first, an alphabetic list of all the terms (keywords) found in all Standard Names, followed by the KWIC index itself, i.e. a page-centred list of all keywords, surrounded on either side by the full Standard Name in which it
> appears.  Each page-centred keyword can, and usually does, appear multiple times on successive lines, once for each Standard Name that it appears in.   All the terms that appear on either side of the page-centred keyword are in fact
> links, taking you up or down the KWIC index to where that term is itself the page-centred keyword.
>
> The idea is that this makes it very easy to navigate around the full set of Standard Names.  It is not really designed for picking up inconsistencies, but I guess that it is one of the tools that could be used to do that.
Best wishes,
Alison
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