2018 netCDF-CF Workshop

This two day workshop took place on 19-20 June 2018 and was hosted by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, UK.

Agenda

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

08:30 - Registration, coffee

09:00 - Welcome and Logistics

09:10 - Workshop overview: plan, expectations, and desired outcomes

09:30 - Introductions, all participants

09:45 - Plenary Session

• Data Model update Note 3 (David Hassell)
• DOIs for CF document Note 2 (Ethan David)

11:00 - Break

11:30 - Plenary Session

• CF referencing external standards, e.g. UGRID​ ​ (see Trac ticket #​171​)
• External variables (David Hassell)

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - Breakout Sessions

• Short intro for each breakout in plenary
• Topics:
  • Reporting Uncertainties (Ken Kehoe)
  • Climate indices, derived statistics (Lars Bärring and Jim Biard)
  • Completeness of NcML implementation (TBD)
  • DSG and Timeseries (TBD)
  • netCDF-4 string and character encodings (TBD)

15:00 - Break

15:30 - Plenary Session

• From Trac to GitHub Note 1 (David Hassell)
• Linked Data with netCDF Note 4 (Mark Hedley)

17:00 - Adjourn

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

08:30 - Coffee

09:00 - Breakout Session Reports

09:45 - Plenary Session

• Geometries (Tim Whiteaker)
• CF-Radial (Ken Kehoe)

10:45 - Break

11:15 - Plenary Session

• Groups (Daniel Lee and Aleksandar Jelenak)
• Satellite Swath (Aleksandar Jelenak)

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - Plenary Session

• CF Standard Names and ontologies (Jonathan Gregory)
• CF Governance and Sustainability (Ethan Davis)

15:00 - Break

15:30 - Meeting Wrap-up

• Review of meeting discussion topics
• Leads for the various efforts (Volunteers)
• Wrap up

17:00 - Adjourn

Summary and Key Decisions

Notes

Note 1 - From Trac to GitHub

• See Trac ticket #160​ and GitHub issue #130​
• Place to track current proposal work and upcoming/potential. GitHub or CF web pages?
• Place to draft and develop proposals for extensions to CF

Note 2 - DOIs for CF document

• Decide on some topics by reviewing DOI discussion

Note 3 - Data Model: Update and discussion

• See proposal on the mailing list

Note 4 - Linked Data with netCDF

• Incorporating multiple metadata conventions (CF and non-CF)
• Interpreting netCDF metadata as graphs spanning many files
• Applying Linked Data processes to netCDF metadata graphs
• Metadata vocabularies

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