Hello,
Rosalyn has very quickly cleared up one problem I was having: I couldn't
get the cf-checker to accept my string of 800 flag_meanings. The problem
lies in the interpretation of Section 3.5 of the CF Conformance
Requirements and Recommendations:
>>
>> "The type of the flag_meanings attribute is a string whose value is a
>> blank separated list of words or phrases (words connected by
>> underscores)."
The cf-checker currently interprets "words" as alpha-numeric characters
only. This excludes hyphens and abbreviations (as in "Alaska-St. Elias
Range tundra", "Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra"), and also "/" and
",", which occurred in my list. My feeling is that the restriction in
the cf-checker should be relaxed and the text clarified -- but it would
be interesting to know what machine-readability criterea people have in
mind for this flag_meanings attribute.
Regards,
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: V. Balaji [mailto:V.Balaji at noaa.gov]
> Sent: 27 October 2009 19:01
> To: Lawrence, Bryan (STFC,RAL,SSTD)
> Cc: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu; Weatherall, Pauline; Juckes, Martin
> (STFC,RAL,SSTD); Ed Hartnett
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag
> valuesinnetcdf cf
>
> Bryan Lawrence writes:
>
> > 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
:-).
>
> Could happen...
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/18/conservatives-defence
>
> I see nerc.co.uk coming...
> --
>
> V. Balaji Office: +1-609-452-6516
> Head, Modeling Systems Group, GFDL Home: +1-212-253-6662
> Princeton University Email: v.balaji at noaa.gov
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