Re: [thredds] thredds Digest, Vol 31, Issue 11

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• From: John Kerfoot <johnkerfoot@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:14:30 -0400

Hi Oliver,

I don't have much direct experience with this, but the proper way to attach
metadata to a THREDDS dataset  or dataset variable is with NcML.  Here's
some doco from Unidata on doing this:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/tutorial/NcML.htm

Hope this helps (and hope I understand what you're asking).

John



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> Trying to ping again on the following question ... it doesn't make sense?
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> thanks
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> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Oliver <python152@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hi all -
> >
> > I am trying to ?thredds.catalog API to generate a customized catalog,
> > one thing is not clear to me by looking at Java doc is how to
> > associate a metadata section to a dataset. For example, one sample
> > catalog I want to generate is:
> >
> > ? <dataset>
> > ? ? ? ?<properties> ... </property>
> > ? ? ? ?<metadata inherited="true">
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ?<dataType> GRID </dataType>
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ?<variables> ...
> > ? ? ? ?</metadata>
> >
> > ? ? ? ?<dataset> ... </dataset>
> > ? </dataset>
> >
> > As I look at the the java API for InvDatasetImpl, I don't see how I
> > can put in this metadata structure.
> > Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Thanks for help.
> >
> >
> > Oliver
> >
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