[Esip-documentation] Minutes

[Aaron Sweeney - NOAA Affiliate]

Thanks, Ted.

Regarding item 2, the relevant link to documentation regarding SeaDataNet's
profile for netCDF is:
http://www.seadatanet.org/content/download/16251/106283/file/SDN2_D85_WP8_Datafile_formats.pdf
.

Cordially,
Aaron

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Ted Habermann via Esip-documentation <
esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

>  Hello all,
>
>  These are the minutes for today's meeting. I will get them on the
> Wiki/commons ASAP...
>
>  Ted
>
>  Documentation Cluster Minutes - February 2015
>
> The Documentation cluster meeting was delayed a week then held two hours
> early (sorry about the confusion caused by Ted).
> Nevertheless, we had an interesting discussion.
>
> 1. Resolution and units
> There was a long email thread yesterday started by Aaron Sweeny about how
> horizontal resolutions were described in netCDF and in the ACDD
> documentation. There was confusion caused by the recommendation that
> resolution strings in ACDD have the form “number units”. The current
> transform translates this into invalid ISO because the ISO value includes
> the entire string and it is expected to be a numeric value (needs to be
> checked). There is also a situation in an NODC template where, for point
> data, the resolution is recommended to be the string “point”. This also
> causes problems related to the type of the result in ISO.
>
> It was decided that the ACDD documentation would be amended to include
> that fact that, if the resolution is given without units, it is assumed to
> be the same as the unit given by geospatial_lat/lon_units.
>
> 2. A way forward
>
> Aaron is also interested in how Sea Data Net attributes can be translated
> from netCDF to ISO. The only recommendation for a way forward involved
> branching the ncISO xsl (in gitHub at
> https://github.com/Unidata/threddsIso/tree/master/src/main/resources/xsl/nciso)
> to include those attributes as input. This branch could then be described
> on the ACDD pages in the ESIP wiki. The SeaDataNet metadata page is at
> http://www.seadatanet.org/Standards-Software/Metadata-formats.
>
> 3. Metadata Recommendations and Dialects
>
> Ted reported briefly on the work he has been doing with tools for
> comparing metadata recommendations and dialects. Early versions of these
> tools are at:
>
> http://ec2-54-149-127-50.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:443/drTool/
>
> http://ec2-54-149-127-50.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:443/recTool/ and
>
> http://ec2-54-149-127-50.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:443/dialectTool/
> Maybe next month we will have more time for a complete description of this
> work...
>
> 4. Linked Data Dataset Description
>
> Ted reported on some recent metadata developments in the W3C Health Care
> and Life Sciences Working Group. This group is working on a profile for
> dataset descriptions that brings together many commonly used linked data
> namespaces. The Editors Working Draft of this profile is at
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/. Ted is working on
> crosswalks from that profile to metadata dialects that are commonly used in
> the Earth sciences.
>
>
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