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

Nan Galbraith ngalbraith at whoi.edu
Wed Jan 25 12:59:59 EST 2017


I agree that location_vocabulary would be a good addition to ACDD.

We always knew there would be more vocabularies needed ...

Cheers - Nan


On 1/24/17 7:51 AM, Stevens, Tyler B. (GSFC-610.2)[Wyle Information 
Systems, LLC] via Esip-documentation wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Let me know if you have any questions on the GCMD location keywords.
>
> *Tyler Stevens*
>
> *From:*Esip-documentation 
> [mailto:esip-documentation-bounces at lists.esipfed.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Armstrong, Edward M (398G) via Esip-documentation
> *Sent:* Monday, January 23, 2017 6:12 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Esip-documentation] ACDD: add "locations" & 
> "locations_vocabulary"?
>
> Location_vocabulary is good recommendation.
>
>   - ed
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 9:57 AM, Sean Gordon via Esip-documentation 
> <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org 
> <mailto:esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:
>
>>
>     I think this fits right in with the discussion today! I’m adding
>     the text from the invite:
>
>     ...
>
>     *From: *Esip-documentation
>     <esip-documentation-bounces at lists.esipfed.org
>     <mailto:esip-documentation-bounces at lists.esipfed.org>> on behalf
>     of Anna Milan - NOAA Federal via Esip-documentation
>     <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org
>     <mailto:esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org>>
>     *Date: *Monday, January 23, 2017 at 10:26 AM
>     *Subject: *Re: [Esip-documentation] ACDD: add "locations" &
>     "locations_vocabulary"?
>
>     Hi John,
>
>     I think that's a good idea and this would be useful for NOAA data
>     as well. I believe that this cluster is looking at ways to
>     manage/document suggestions for improvements to ACDD 1.3...
>
>     ...
>
>
>     Anna
>
>     On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:32 PM, John Maurer via
>     Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org
>     <mailto: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
>
>


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