Ethan Davis wrote:
We might want to allow multiple variable vocabulary names to each
variable as well so that dataset variable names can be mapped into
multiple conventions/controlled vocabs without repeating everything.
For instance,
<variable name="wv">
<vocabulary_name vocabulary="CF-1.0">Wind Speed</vocabulary_name>
<vocabulary_name vocabulary="DIF">EARTH SCIENCE, Atmosphere,
Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds</vocabulary_name>
<units vocabulary="udunits>m/s</units>
</variable>
Ethan
An excellent point, which changes the way I think of attributes, and
will probably change the way I code them: any attribute controlled by
vocabularies might have different values for different vocabularies, and
thus might get repeated.
I take it that if I am willing to repeat everything, I am supposed to
create a series of metadata containers, each with a different
vocabulary, e.g.
<metadata vocabulary="DIF" inherit=true>
<vocabulary_name>EARTH SCIENCE, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Winds, Surface
Winds</vocabulary_name>
</metadata>
<metadata vocabulary="CF-1.0" inherit=true>
<vocabulary_name>Wind Speed</vocabulary_name>
</metadata>
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