[Esip-documentation] ACDD convention

[Carlo Lacagnina]

Dear ESIP Documentation Cluster mailing list,


I work in a service contract supporting the European Union Copernicus 
Climate Change Service (C3S). In this service, we are starting to check 
the ACDD convention 1.3. However, we have some questions about it, could 
you help me?

In particular, it seems that the convention does not specify whether 
data is compliant with ACDD, but rather whether the metadata attributes 
are following "highly recommended", "recommended" or "suggested" 
specifications. Is the interpretation correct? In that case, does it 
make sense to map these 3 levels into "not compliant: error", 
"compliant: severe warning", "compliant: warning or ok" ?

I understand that the answer might depend on the application, the aim 
for us is to identify which file is compliant with the ACDD convention. 
Would the mapping above make sense or would you suggest a different 
mapping? Thank you very much for your help.


Kind regards,

Carlo


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Carlo Lacagnina
Earth Sciences Department
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