[Esip-documentation] ACDD comments -- rewriting metadata in summary (etc.)

[Ted Habermann via Esip-documentation]

Hello all,

The short definition of summary is much cleaner and correct. Suggesting that content from other well-known metadata fields be packed into the summary is not a good idea. After all, that is what file names are for...

Ted

P.S. just kidding...

On Sep 19, 2014, at 6:18 PM, John Graybeal via Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org<mailto:esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:


On Sep 18, 2014, at 14:41, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal <bob.simons at noaa.gov<mailto:bob.simons at noaa.gov>> wrote:

I think all Bob is asking is that bounding information not be contained in the free-text "summary" attribute, which totally makes sense.  There would be no programatic way to keep that up to date as the dataset is subset.
Yes. Thank you, Rich.

Thank you both, sorry that I missed the key point there. (I'm going to look for Anna's comment here as well, as the text in question* was added as she updated the 'final copy.)

The original was "A paragraph describing the dataset, analogous to an abstract for a paper."

In the interests of getting to closure, I propose we go back to the short form, and postpone the meta-discussion of how subsetting affects attributes to after we get to closure on ACDD. Can everyone live with that? (Oh please oh please)

John

*The new description is "A paragraph describing the dataset, analogous to an abstract for a paper. In many discovery systems, the title and the summary will be displayed in the results list from a search. It should therefore capture the essence of the dataset it describes. For instance, we recommend a summary of the following: type of data contained in the dataset, how the data was created (e.g., instrument X; or model X, run Y), the creator of the dataset, the project for which the data was created, the geospatial coverage of the data, and the temporal coverage of the data."

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