Documentation - March 2014 Telecon

·         Agenda sent out shortly before the meeting

3) And ideas or contributions to metadata of the month – no one has anything prepared for this

2) ACDD attributes and using them in groups (or as objects)

·         Ajay – question about ACDD attributes in groups – when have multiple creator_name attribute should names be comma separated?

o   Currently only allows for a single value

o   If yes, should there be a creater_role attribute

·         Ted started work on how to organize this with ACDD – similar to examples on http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/NetCDF,_HDF,_and_ISO_Metadata and in a presentation that Ed prepared (multiple distributers)

·         Phil – question about implementation – with multiple version – is it safe to use comma delimited

o   Ed – it is too soon to adopt a convention – comma is likely way to go

o   Anna – if using this to translate to ISO – it can cause a problem – comma delimited translated to multiple fields – while it should be translated to a responsible_party_name filed

o   Ajay – all attributes may need to be expanded to include multiple options or groups

·          Alek – ACDD may have run its course – it might be time for something new – something more complex

·         Phil – what versions are out for review and how can one submit comments

o   http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Attribute_Conventions_Dataset_Discovery

o   ACTION – Ed will get back to Phil about what has changed between the different versions of ACDD

o   ACDD 1.2 is still in beta and can be commented on… likely just by emailing the documentation cluster list

·         But what is OCDD (object convention for dataset discovery)

o   Will be version 2.0 of ACDD

o   Alek – nothing written beyond the wiki page – expect things to start to move faster later this year

·         Summer meeting sessions

o   Have session on ISO metadata in Science Data Products

o   Need to make sessions for Hack-a-thon (Anna) and Data Quality (?Ted)

o   Do we want to add a session about ACDD/OCDD?

§  We are interested but wonder if we can combine this with one of the other three sessions we have already proposed

o   We likely can have 3 time slots – need to provide Erin with placeholder information about sessions before mid-April

1) Continuation of discussion on mailing list of use of ACCD spatial and temporal bounds

·         Problems is that the metadata is not updated when a program changes a file

·         Software needs to handle updates to metadata

o   Group needs a stronger statement to developers when there software updates a granule

·         Anna (and many others) confused as to why not including the information would be a viable option… consensus of those attending was that it wasn’t acceptable

o   Alek thinks we need a wall of shame for those who do not meet quality assessment J

o   Ed will keep lobbying to NOT remove attributes – his group use these attributes regularly

·         Next meeting is April 17 at 2pm EDT

o   John Kozimor (NOAA) will talk about WMO metadata work