We did this "by hand" (well actually we have a program that does it) in
generating our catalogs not certain ow others do it.
-Roy
On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>
>
> Roy,
>
> Briefly scanning that page it looks like this gist of it is that one could
> use NcML to add/complete a "Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0" set of metadata
> to a data set. THis could then be harvested by the TDS, or by other software
> that understood the "Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0" convention.
>
> Is that the general idea?
>
> N
>
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
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>> Hi Nathan:
>>
>> Look at:
>>
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html
>>
>> -Roy
>>
>> On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I have some questions about the origin of the thredds:geospaptialCoverage
>>> element that is commonly found in THREDDS catalogs. It is my understanding
>>> that:
>>>
>>> - The TDS can generate this metadata element by interrogating certain types
>>> of source data files.
>>> - People that write their own THREDDS catalog files to be served by the TDS
>>> can add the thredds:geospaptialCoverage metadata directly to their catalogs
>>> (using whatever process they wish).
>>>
>>> Is the thredds:geospaptialCoverage also something that can be added through
>>> normal channels in NcML augmented data sets?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> = = =
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>
> = = =
> Nathan Potter ndp at opendap.org
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>
>
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Government or NOAA."
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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097
e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx (Note new e-mail address)
voice: (831)-648-9029
fax: (831)-648-8440
www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/
"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
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