[Esip-documentation] ACDD: add "locations" & "locations_vocabulary"?

[John Graybeal]

I like it! But I’m not a current data manager so should only get a half-vote.

john
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John Graybeal
jbgraybeal at mindspring.com
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> On Jan 10, 2017, at 16:32, John Maurer via Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
> 
> The current Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery (ACDD-1.3 <http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Attribute_Convention_for_Data_Discovery>) provides the following fields for capturing keywords:
> 
> keywords
> keywords_vocabulary
> 
> instrument
> instrument_vocabulary
> 
> platform
> platform_vocabulary
> 
> I would propose the addition of the following:
> 
> locations
> locations_vocabulary
> 
> This would allow us to enter, for example, GCMD Location Keywords <http://gcmdservices.gsfc.nasa.gov/static/kms/locations/locations.csv?ed_wiki_keywords_page> to help enable placename-based data searches:
> 
> locations: "Continent > North America > United States Of America > Hawaii, Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Oahu" 
> locations_keyword: "GCMD Location Keywords"
> 
> Thoughts?
> Thanks,
> John Maurer
> Data System Engineer
> Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS <http://pacioos.org/>)
> University of Hawaii at Manoa
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