[Go-essp-tech] DRS syntax and TDS identifiers
Bentley, Philip
philip.bentley at metoffice.gov.uk
Thu Sep 2 05:27:13 MDT 2010
Hi Martin,
Thanks for both the confirmation and clarification. As suspected, it
looks like we'll be unaffected.
And, yes, you are correct. BADC will ingest our CMOR-netCDF files and
move them to correct location in the data node DRS directory
hierarchy...whatever that may be :-)
Regards,
Phil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin.juckes at stfc.ac.uk [mailto:martin.juckes at stfc.ac.uk]
> Sent: 02 September 2010 12:12
> To: Bentley, Philip; martina.stockhause at zmaw.de; go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
> Cc: Elkington, Mark; Kettleborough, Jamie
> Subject: RE: [Go-essp-tech] DRS syntax and TDS identifiers
>
> Hello Phil,
>
> I think we can safely isolate the discussion below from CMOR2.
>
> Firstly, CMOR2 is clearly not in a position to consider
> version control.
> Version control has deliberately been postponed to a later stage. If
> CMOR2 is used to analyse output for the same experiment twice
> it will produce the same file names and directory structure.
> In order to support version control, the files will have to
> be moved away from the directory structure created by CMOR2.
> The directory structure created by CMOR2 does, however, use
> the DRS vocabulary, so the rearrangement to support version
> control is a reasonably simple post-processing step. Jamie
> might want to comment on this, but I believe that in the
> UKMO-BADC publishing stream, this rearrangement will be done
> at BADC. The discussion below is really about how this
> re-arrangement will be done, and how it will be represented
> in the THREDDS catalogue, so it is a concern to groups
> running the ESG data nodes and seeking (as Martina is) to
> develop software which will interact with the data nodes. The
> data node configuration has not yet been finalised.
>
> What CMOR2 needs from the DRS are the controlled
> vocabularies, and I can't see any changes happening there
> (except that there are rumours of additional experiments by
> some groups).
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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