[CF-metadata] NDG Vocabulary Server and CF Standard Names

From: Roy Lowry <rkl>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:08:50 +0100

Dear All,

The Standard names are now served from the vocabulary server as three lists:

http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P07/9 contains all the Standard Names that have ever been published, including names that have been aliased

http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P071/9 contains the Standard Names that are currently valid (i.e. those that have not been deprecated through aliasing)

http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P072/9 contains the Standard Names that have been deprecated through aliasing

The mapping between deprecates and their replacement aliases my be obtained through the following API call

http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/axis2/services/vocab/getMap?subjectList=http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P072/current&predicate=255&objectList=http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P071/current&inference=false

Note that the P072 entryTermLastMod element gives the date of deprecation for terms aliased since version 2 of the Standard Names. Otherwise it is set to the date when the system first served Standard Names (2006-09-26).

Cheers, Roy.

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