Peter Cornillon wrote:
> > (Personally I like the simple definition "In a DODS server, a dataset is
> > something you
> > can get a DAS and DAP from." Maybe this should be the def'n of a "DODS
> > data set".)
>
> Steve, are you including a file server and/or an Aggregation server here?
> Even if you are, from the perspective of the DODS/NVODS dataset list, this
> definition is quite restrictive.
Offline here to keep from muddying the waters.
I guess I'd say that the reason for agreeing on a definition is so that a
single meaning can
flow *from* it rather than multiple meanings flowing *into* it. The meaning
that would flow
from "In a DODS server, a dataset is something you can get a DAS and DAP from."
(John
Caron's words) is that the output of an A.S. is a DODS data set. The collection
of data sets
represented by a DODS file server (a.k.a. "catalog server"?), however, is NOT a
"DODS data
set" by this definition (though the file server URL, itself, is.)
I don't see this is either restrictive or non-restrictive. It seems like what
we're after is
simply some terminology that we can agree upon -- not to alter the underlying
concepts.
