[Go-essp-tech] grids in metafor, and the esg catalog

[V. Balaji]

Oops, forgot attachment.

V. Balaji writes:

> I've attached an example of an XML file, with some "discovery"-type
> fields that will not come from gridspec, e.g documentID, creationDate,
> esmModelGrid/shortname,longname,description,reference,referenceList.
>
> In addition Bryan and I felt there were some resolution-related info
> which is implicit in gridSpec but the semantics needed to extract it
> are rather obscure. While this might introduce some new consistency
> issues, that is probably less error-prone than trying to interpret
> gridSpec for this information. This may introduce a new field in ESG (I
> don't think so) but as far as I can tell (especially since I'm typing as
> Don is presenting exactly this at GIP at this second...!) ESG's grid
> metadata looks complete.

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