Dear Uwe,
It exists. A copy of the Standard Names is served through the NERC Vocabulary Server (
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/products/web_services/vocab/). The references to the Standard Names list are:
Live terms:
http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P071/current/
Deprecated terms:
http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P072/current/
These list addresses may be incorporated into either the SOAP or HTTP-POX APIs described in the URL reference above.
Individual Standard Names are addressed through BODC-assigned opaque identifiers such as:
http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P072/17/CFSN0012
The associated canonical units will be found in references containing 'P061' in the mappings section of the payload XML document, such as <skos:minorMatch rdf:resource="
http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P061/37/KMP2" />.
The Standard Name list is also maintained in the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository which again provides programmatic access through an API. I'll leave it to the MMI folks to provide you with pointers to the detail.
Cheers, Roy.
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From: cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Uwe Rosebrock
Sent: 26 May 2011 00:41
To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: [CF-metadata] WS querying cf meta data catalog
Hi all,
is there or is there a plan to establish a web service to query the standard_name list and units programatically (without human interaction)?
would such a service be useful as vocabulary by anybody?
Cheers
Uwe
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