A minor clarification as to how MMI is doing things:
Benno, all,
On Dec 13, 2010, at 07:25, Benno Blumenthal wrote:
> We have tried to get standard URIs for CF concepts, but the effort bogged down.
>
> As for standard names, MMI established a set of URIs at
>
> http://marinemetadata.org/cf
>
> but has not been keeping up to date.
Thanks for the mention. This is our older URL, sorry; we are now maintaining CF standard names in our ontology repository, using resolvable URLs. [1]
There was a period when MMI was not keeping up to date with CF changes, but in the recent past we have been continuously updating the SKOS ontology for the parameter names at the site Carlos mentioned [1] (We will forward the misleading /cf URL above, or fix it to make clear in some other way the current status; thanks for calling that out.)
As with Roy's handling, we provide URLs both for the current version at the reference URL, and for individual releases of the vocabulary.
John
[1]
http://mmisw.org/ont/cf/parameter
> I have written a XSL transform at
>
> http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ontologies/xslt/.cfsn2rdf.xsl
>
> that can be applied to
>
> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/16/cf-standard-name-table.xml
>
> to generate an up-to-date version, e.g.
>
> xsltproc http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ontologies/xslt/.cfsn2rdf.xsl http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/16/cf-standard-name-table.xml
>
> On the other hand, Roy has created opaque URIs for standard names at
>
> 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)
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> 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
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> 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
>
>
> he changes them with each version, so it is both more definitive and harder to use. It is also pure SKOS, so one needs to add structure to actually connect it with a CF-described dataset. I plan to write out a map between the two, so that I can use his relationships between CF standard_names, but I do not have it yet.
>
> Additional information and ontologies describing the CF structure both as attributes and conceptually are available at http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ontologies/, including the connections between the standard_name ontologies and the CF structure.
>
>
>
> Benno
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Dominic Lowe <dominic.lowe at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What's the current CF recommended scheme for referencing a standard name on
> > the web? (either by URL or URN).
> >
> > I know about the vocab server and the xml/html online versions and could
> > choose to use URLs to point to items in any of these but is there a
> > definitive pattern that should be used? (or at least a best practice that
> > should be encouraged?).
> >
> > Much appreciated,
> >
> > Dominic
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