Dear All,
The 'fast track' approach being discussed has promise and is pretty much in line with the ISO vocabulary model (in which terms have proposed, accepted, deprecated or deleted) used in resources like the GEMET thesaurus. However, there are important details to consider, such as version management (what event triggers the publication of a new version of the vocabulary?).
I am more uncomfortable with concept of community namespace Standard Name lists - I see this as the route to data ghettos (and don't truly believe that the Semantic Web would prevent this as nobody will bother doing the mappings)- and specialized standard names (in my view its either a Standard Name or it isn't and we have to accept that the nature of Standard Name is moving away from the purity of a geophysical phenomenon).
Cheers, Roy
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From: cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu [cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Nan Galbraith [ngalbraith at whoi.edu]
Sent: 12 May 2010 20:35
To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] non-standard standard_names
The original proposal was to include names that have been rejected by
CF for being "too specialized" - these would be permanent parts of the
project vocabulary, not deprecated.
Many in situ instruments produce non-geophysical variables that fall
into this category; although this isn't what Martin had in mind, his
proposal - or something along the same lines - would help us get to
a standard naming scheme for this kind of data too.
- Nan
> So my proposal was to create a vocabulary, or more precisely an RDF
> store, that lets us:
> 1) declare a name that may be proposed as a CF candidate
> 2) make a statement that the name has been (or even 'is being')
> submitted to CF for consideration
> 3a) make a statement that the name has been accepted as a CF name,
> and therefore is deprecated as a proposed name
> 3b) make a statement that the name has been rejected as a CF name,
> and therefore is deprecated as a proposed name
> In either 3a or 3b,
> 4) make a statement that the replacement representation of the name
> is xyz in some other vocabulary
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