[CF-metadata] Towards recognizing and exploiting hierarchical groups

From: Russ Rew <russ>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:39:28 -0600

Steve,

> A question I'd like to see discussed (primarily to Unidata, I guess):
> how difficult would it be to make accommodations in the netCDF API,
> itself, so that netCDF4 groups were accessible through the netCDF-3
> API. If such enhancements could be baked into the netCDF code the
> character of the interoperability impacts through adding group-aware
> elements to CF would be utterly changed. This would open the door wide
> to group-aware CF. Has an analysis of this been done?

We've discussed it, but haven't completed a design. It seems like a
good idea, but there may be issues in the details. I think it deserves
more serious consideration.

--Russ
Received on Mon Sep 16 2013 - 15:39:28 BST