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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">There is another area of vagueness, as far as I can see, which is related to current discussions about how terms in the THREDDS catalogue are translated into
 the terms that appear in the user interface. The &lt;property name=&#8221;....&#8221; value=&#8221;....&#8221;/&gt; elements have are often associated with a controlled vocabulary, but there is no indication in the catalogue or our interface specification as to where these vocabularies
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">I can see 3 options:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">List the vocabularies in the interface specification;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">List places where the vocabularies are defined in the interface specification;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Go-essp-tech] Corrected THREDDS group wiki page link<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&gt; o Each catalog is harvested as a single discoverable dataset - the reason being that hopefully the data provider thought about how to generate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&gt; the catalogs, and decided on what should be the single unit of discovery<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&gt; o For each catalog, all files are assigned to the top-level dataset container - so if there were many nested datasets with files, it still would result<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&gt; in a single discoverable dataset with as many files<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I may be mistaken, but at a thredds catalog always only contains one top-level dataset ? At least that used to be the case, I believe. At the very least, I don't know of any catalog that has many top-level datasets.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As for the properties - if they are associated with mid-level datasets, they would currently be ignored. This could change, if we had examples to work with.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">thanks, L<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Stephen Pascoe&nbsp; &#43;44 (0)1235 445980</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Cinquini,
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>23 February 2012 15:02<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,RALSP)<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Re: [Go-essp-tech] Corrected THREDDS group wiki page link</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Each catalog can contain an arbitrary hierarchy of datasets and catalogRefs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Each catalog is harvested as a single discoverable dataset - the reason being that hopefully the data provider thought about how to generate the catalogs, and decided on what should be the single unit of discovery<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o For each catalog, all files are assigned to the top-level dataset container - so if there were many nested datasets with files, it still would result in a single discoverable dataset with as many files<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o And obviously, all catalogRef are followed in harvesting, and generate separate discoverable datasets.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">thanks, Luca<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">On the hierarchy, I personally believe we could allow any number of intermediate catalogues containing &lt;catalogRef&gt; elements in the spec.&nbsp; Datanodes currently
 only produce 2 levels .../thredds/catalog.xml and .../thredds/esgcet/catalog.xml, but there would be no harm in having deeper nesting.&nbsp; What I think is less flexible is the constraint that &quot;leaf-catalogs&quot; contain a single container &lt;dataset&gt; element and a
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>23 February 2012 12:11<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,RALSP);<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech@ucar.edu">go-essp-tech@ucar.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>RE: Corrected THREDDS group wiki page link</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">(1)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">There
 syntax should be versioned , and the version should be indicated in the catalogue somewhere &#8211; whatever we agree on, there is bound to be need to change in the future, and changes will be much easier to manage if we have the version in the catalogue. There
 could be independent syntax versions for the top level catalogue and the &#8220;publication unit&#8221; catalogue. The cleanest way to do this would be with an xsd document referenced in the schemaLocation attribute. We could set this up initially with a &#8220;permissive&#8221;
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 &#8220;catalogRef&#8221; means that very little information is in the top level, and at the next level you have to fetch everything. Having an 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>level &#8211; e.g. for each simulation &#8211; would allow more flexibility in
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>21 February 2012 16:14<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>[Go-essp-tech] Corrected THREDDS group wiki page link</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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