[Go-essp-tech] [esg-node-dev] Use of <metadata> element in THREDDS catalogs

[Gavin M. Bell]

 Hi Folks,

If I may...
I am curious to know what the philosophical issues are.
>From the lay-person's pov (mine of course) I don't see what  would be
wrong with doing so, if it allows us more flexibility with our queries. 
I know Charles' use-case pretty well and I don't know why one would want
that process to be less than smooth.  Is the issue of ease of querying
and this metadata sequestration mutually exclusive?  If so... I'd vote
for flexibility and ease of querying.

my $0.02

On 6/1/11 8:55 AM, Cinquini, Luca (3880) wrote:
>> I'm wary of the approach of propagating all metadata to all levels of
>> the system.  My instinct is we should decide what belongs at the
>> dataset level and stick with it.
> That's why we haven't done it so far.... It's a philosophical decision...

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