Lowry, Roy K wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> There is another possible solution to your problem, which we are looking at for dealing with a data source flag to be used with the GEBCO bathymetric grid. This is to put a URI base into an attribute that when concatenated with a flag values gives the flag definition from a vocabulary server. For example, having a flag_definition attribute like:
>
> URI_base='http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/GGS1/current/'
>
> For a flag value of 1, the resulting URL is:
>
> http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/GGS1/current/1
>
> which is a live NERC Vocabulary Server URL returning the flag definition attributes in a SKOS document.
>
> I appreciate that this moves away from fully self-contained CF files and that a standardised syntax for the URI base encoding is required, but I think this provides a scalable solution to the flag definition problem.
>
> Cheers, Roy.
Hi Roy:
If I was an application trying to use this feature, i would like to be able to download all the possible values for this flag enumeration with one call to your server. Is that possible?
I guess the other concern with external tables is ensuring that the writer and the reader really have the same table. Is there some way to ensure that?
Received on Tue Oct 27 2009 - 07:16:44 GMT
