Hello,
Below is the powerpoint summary of the CF-netCDF Standards Working Group
session at last week's OpenGeospatial Consortium Technical Committee
meeting. The session was held Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:00 – 13:00
- One (positive) comment so far from the RFC on the Core and Binary
Encoding CF-netCDF Candidate Standards
- Note that CF governing committee has been contacted regarding CF
submission to OGC, modeled on NASA SPG spec (Ben Domenico)
- Description of the CF extension to the netCDF core (Stefano Nativi)
- Description of the CF-netCDF encoding extension to WCS (Stefano)
- General Discussion
- No motions, no votes
The resulting SWG action items were:
- Follow up on suggestion to standardize vocabulary for some netCDF
global variables.
- Investigate sending a copy of OGC CF-netCDF RFC to the CF-conventions
mail list
- Check with HDF group to see if they are considering OGC standardization
- Investigate which version of CF addresses CRS/Datum issues
- Get the version numbers correct for all the standards being proposed
and referenced in the CF-netCDF specs.
- Get OPeNDAP community input on mechanism proposed to deliver OPeNDAP
URL as a proxy for a netCDF file
One other topic of special interest that came up at the meeting is the fact
that the stars are aligning for a couple meetings in Colorado a year from
now. UCAR/Unidata is hosting the OGC Technical Committee meetings the week
of September 19, 2011 in Boulder and the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source 4
Geosciences) meetings and workshops are the week before (Sept 12) in Denver .
Both these meetings are of interest to many members of the community and we
have people involved in planning for both. In addition, we could plan for a
special presence at either or both meetings or possibly could plan a
"bridge" meeting/workshop of some sort between the two.
-- Ben
