[Go-essp-tech] esg publisher, thredds and netcdf attributes

[Bryan Lawrence]

Hi Bob

As you know, we're in the process of building a tool to parse the 
thredds catalogs produced by esg-publisher.

We're sitting in a meeting looking at the Thredds XML.

At the moment there are dataset properties which reflect attributes from 
the files, and some which come from esg-publisher. From the point of view 
of automatically consuming these catalogs, we can't tell the difference 
between these attributes.

For example, the checksum information we presume comes from esg-
publisher, and the tracking-id from internal attributes file.

Is it possible in Thredds to distinguish between these things? It's 
pretty important for unpicking the origin of the information which 
appears in the catalog.

Thanks
Bryan

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Bryan Lawrence
Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research
(NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC)
STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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