Jonathan,
Could you say a bit more about this requirement? In particular, "plain text with nothing but the list in it" and "machine-readable" aren't entirely contradictory, but may preclude more complex representations that are appropriate, no? (I'm not an expert in gazetteer representation, but being able to represent e.g., hierarchies of metadata gets tricky, I'm guessing. Is something like XML or RDF close enough to plain text to meet this goal/requirement?
John
On Jan 24, 2012, at 13:36, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> * The list was available on the internet in an easy machine- and human-readable
> form and likely to be maintained. Since it would be used automatically by
> software, it should be available in a file which can be easily parsed to
> extract just the list e.g. plain text with nothing but the list in it.
John Graybeal <mailto:jgraybeal at ucsd.edu>
Marine Metadata Interoperability Project:
http://marinemetadata.org
Received on Tue Jan 24 2012 - 14:47:14 GMT
