2008 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > CF Conventions
9.4 Principles
The CF conventions follow five general principles.
- Data should be self-describing, without external tables needed to
interpret the file.
- Conventions should only be developed for known issues, and
features should only be added as needed.
- Conventions should be easy to use, both for data writers and
users of data.
- The metadata and its meaning, as encoded in the conventions,
should be readable by humans as well as easily used by
programs.
- Redundancy should be minimized to reduce the chance of inconsistency.
2008 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > CF Conventions