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Re: vocabularies

Ethan Davis wrote:
We might want to allow multiple variable vocabulary names to each variable as well so that dataset variable names can be mapped into multiple conventions/controlled vocabs without repeating everything. For instance, 
<variable name="wv">
   <vocabulary_name vocabulary="CF-1.0">Wind Speed</vocabulary_name>
<vocabulary_name vocabulary="DIF">EARTH SCIENCE, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds</vocabulary_name> 
   <units vocabulary="udunits>m/s</units>
</variable>

Ethan

An excellent point, which changes the way I think of attributes, and 
will probably change the way I code them:   any attribute controlled by 
vocabularies might have different values for different vocabularies, and 
thus might get repeated.  

I take it that if I am willing to repeat everything, I am supposed to 
create a series of metadata containers, each with a different 
vocabulary, e.g.

<metadata vocabulary="DIF" inherit=true>

<vocabulary_name>EARTH SCIENCE, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Winds, Surface 
Winds</vocabulary_name>

</metadata>
<metadata vocabulary="CF-1.0" inherit=true>
<vocabulary_name>Wind Speed</vocabulary_name>
</metadata>


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