On Tuesday 27 October 2009 15:45:17 Lowry, Roy K wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Establishing on-line metadata resources with permanence is the name of my game. If I didn't have confidence it would be around in 15 years I wouldn't be promoting it.
My job is to persist data indefinitely, and I'm relying on vocabulary servers ... (and in particular, Roy's ... ) somehow we will persist the vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk address, regardless of nerc's future, and of ndg's future, although if ac.uk went away we might be in trouble :-).
Cheers
Bryan
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(NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC)
STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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