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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> -- Dr. M. Benno Blumenthal benno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx International Research Institute for climate prediction The Earth Institute at Columbia University Lamont Campus, Palisades NY 10964-8000 (845) 680-4450
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