Alain,
Further to my earlier comment, and to address your question regarding
file name suffix, my company makes data available via THREDDS and ERDDAP
neither of which I have found has any problem using files that do not
have a ".nc" suffix. When editing the metadata for files to be published
via THREDDS and ERDDAP the use of other file suffix, such as ".grb" for
GRIB files, has not caused any issues or stopped us from state
conformance with conventions such as CF.
Regards,
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: Comiskey, Glenn
Sent: 03 August 2011 16:19
To: 'cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu'
Cc: 'alain.mazurier at altran.com'
Subject: RE: CF-metadata Digest, Vol 100, Issue 2
Bonjour Alain,
Being new to the world of meteorological/oceangraphic data myself
recently, I had the same problem you have when reading the various
conventions available. Based upon discussions about this matter, and how
others are using and interpretating the conventions, I personally have
adopted a position whereby the term "should" is regarded as a mandatory
requirement. That is to say I interpret "should" as "must".
While I agree that the general definition of "should" would imply
something being optional, the general definition also implies a strong
sense of obligation. That is to say you must do something unless you
have a good reason not to, i.e. I should not kill anyone (I use this as
an example of how strongly "should" could be regarded as obligatory,
rather than my homicidal tendencies :-)
Hope this helps, though I am sure others will also comment.
Salut,
Glenn
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:31:11 +0200
From: "Mazurier Alain" <alain.mazurier at altran.com>
Subject: [CF-metadata] [FRANCE] Question about CF Convention
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Hi all,
I am new on this mailing list and I hope my question is not so obvious
My problem is with:
At the adress :
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/conformance/requirements-and-recommendations/1.
5/ I find ? 2.1 Filename
Requirements:
* Filename must have ".nc" suffix."
But If I read the CF documentation
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.5/cf-conventions-mul
ti.html I find "2.1. Filename NetCDF files should have the file name
extension ".nc". "
For me there is a difference between "must" and "should"?.
If i have another suffix than nc, can i be CF compliant?
Best regards
Alain MAZURIER
Responsable Unit Technologique Logicielle
Received on Wed Aug 03 2011 - 09:47:30 BST
