Hi all,
As some of you have heard, we are holding a meeting to discuss current and
future netCDF-CF efforts and directions. The meeting will be held on 24-26
May 2016 in Boulder, CO, USA at the UCAR Center Green facility.
This meeting is organized by the ?Advancing netCDF-CF for Geoscience?
project [1] which has been funded by the US NSF EarthCube program. The
project goals include several specific CF development efforts, both
standards development and software prototyping. (We are just starting to
spin-up community conversations around these specific goals for drafting CF
extensions.) Another aspect of the funded project is community engagement
including with the existing CF community, geoscience domains that have not
been very involved in CF, and other standards bodies (e.g., OGC). These and
other topics are on the current list of possible agenda items. Please let
us know if you have other agenda items in mind.
The current list of possible agenda items includes:
- Investigate using features of the netCDF enhanced data model to
improve/simplify the CF Discrete Sampling Geometries (which includes point,
sounding, and trajectory data types)
- Drafting a CF enhancement that would add support for complex data
footprints (e.g., river segments and drainage basins)
- Further develop the CFRadial proposal for representing Radar data
- Adding features to better support satellite data
- Adding CF support for hierarchical groups for organizing data and
metadata
- Enhancing CF to support Linked Data / semantic technology concepts
- Harmonizing CF grid mapping with OGC CRS (coordinate reference
systems), possibly with WKT
- Adding CF support for attribute namespaces and the use of URI prefixes
in attribute values
- Improved support for dimensionless data variables, logarithmic scales,
differences, etc.
While we wish we could host all those interested in attending, given the
available meeting space and the number of project participants, we are
asking members of the CF community that are interested in attending to
contact us directly and let us know which aspects of CF are of interest to
you and your goals for the meeting. Please submit your expressions of
interest by Monday, 4 April 2016. We plan to invite participants by Friday,
8 April 2016.
Travel and other information will be on the meeting page [2] later this
week.
Also, for anyone attending EGU in Vienna in April, we will have a splinter
meeting (SMP32) to discuss netCDF-CF. The splinter meeting will be held on
Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 15:30 in room 2.96.
Thank you,
Meeting Organizers
Ethan Davis, UCAR Unidata
Charlie Zender, Univ of CA, Irvine
David Arctur, Univ of TX, Austin
Dave Santek, Univ of WI, Madison / SSEC
Kevin O?Brien, Univ of WA/JISAO and NOAA/PMEL
Aleksandar Jelenak, The HDF Group
Mike Dixon, NCAR/EOL
[1]
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541031
[2]
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/events/2016CFWorkshop/
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