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

[Signell, Richard via Esip-documentation]

Ted,
Exactly.  Well said.
-Rich

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Ted Habermann via Esip-documentation <
esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

>  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> wrote:
>
>
>  On Sep 18, 2014, at 14:41, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal <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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