[netcdfgroup] Localization in NetCDF files

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• Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 20:12:15 +0000
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Hi All,

I work for the Government of Canada and have been looking into the localization 
of metadata within a NetCDF file for the purposes of publishing it (bilingual 
metadata is a requirement of data publishing at the Government of Canada). I 
posted a longer dump of my thoughts here, 
https://github.com/cf-convention/discuss/issues/244, but the fine people at 
support-netcdf thought this would be a useful venue to discuss as well. 
Essentially, I'm looking for a clean way to specify metadata in different 
languages in a way that they can be extracted by an application and displayed 
to the user depending which language they work in. I had a few thoughts but I 
didn't want to rebuild the wheel if there already is a standard and I'd love to 
collaborate on such a standard if there is interest.

Erin Turnbull
Marine Environmental Data Section
Fisheries and Oceans Canada