[Esip-documentation] ACDD questions

[Nan Galbraith]

Ted, can you tell us where the new ISO role codes can be found?

There's a list on the 'ISO People' wiki page you linked below, but I'm
not sure if that's the complete list, and there are no definitions there.

I'm still not sure what a data publisher is, or how/if an owner differs
from an originator or from an author.

Thanks - Nan



On 4/26/13 2:30 PM, Ted Habermann wrote:
> John et al.,
>
> I agree completely that a shared vocabulary with definition is 
> critical. The old ISO vocab is at 
> https://geo-ide.noaa.gov/wiki/index.php?title=ISO_19115_and_19115-2_CodeList_Dictionaries#CI_RoleCode. 
> Many new roles were added in the most recent revision. There is also a 
> brief discussion at http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ISO_People (I 
> will update that list to include revisions)...
>
> What is really important is that the representation allow 
> specification of the source of the code along with the code itself. 
> This is possible in THREDDS, but not ACDD. The job of the standard is 
> to say we use a codelist for this item and that codelist has a 
> location. It is the communities job to say: this is the codelist that 
> our community uses.
>
> Ted
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:02 PM, John Graybeal 
> <graybeal at marinemetadata.org <mailto:graybeal at marinemetadata.org>> wrote:
>
>> Should be from a controlled vocabulary IMHO. BODC has (for 
>> SeaDataNet) an extension of ISO role terms, if I recall correctly. I 
>> think it isn't just for contributor roles, it's for all roles that 
>> this is needed---ISO wasn't very thorough in the first place, but 
>> there will always be new ways for people to be connected to a data set.
>>
>> I don't think we have to be restrictive (in what roles are allowed) 
>> but I think we should try to be explicit (about what a role means).
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:57, Nan Galbraith <ngalbraith at whoi.edu 
>> <mailto:ngalbraith at whoi.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi John -
>>>
>>> One other item that I think we might need to have - beyond better 
>>> definitions
>>> for some of the existing terms -  is a CV for contributor roles. I 
>>> think one exists,
>>> somewhere, but I'm not sure where. BODC, maybe? MMI? Or should this 
>>> really
>>> be free text?
>>>
>>> Thanks -
>>> Nan
>>>
>>> On 4/26/13 12:51 PM, John Graybeal wrote:
>>>> Sorry for the noise. I pasted the wrong URL, meant to paste
>>>> https://geo-ide.noaa.gov/wiki/index.php?title=NetCDF_Attribute_Convention_for_Dataset_Discovery
>>>> as my target space for work. Let me know if that doesn't make sense.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you all for your advice about logging in on ESIP Fed.  I'm 
>>>> getting there...
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>

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