[Esip-documentation] ACDD questions

[Kenneth S. Casey - NOAA Federal]

Nan,

GREAT conversation going on…. thanks to you and Derrick for getting it rolling.  I am responding right now to only this one statement…

On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Nan Galbraith <ngalbraith at whoi.edu> wrote:

> I believe that NODC recommends naming the principal investigator as the 'creator' - 
> although in some circumstances there is no single PI, so maybe we should say this
> is the person who grants the use of the data.

All we say at NODC in our netCDF templates for the creator_ attributes is copied below… we discussed attributes like this a lot when documenting our templates and finally "settled" on the idea of creator being associated with "collector" of the data.  Of course even that is not perfect.  We don't say anything about PIs, since as Nan points out there is often no single PI. I would add that there is often no PI at all… many, many, datasets come to us now as a result of sustained and operational observing programs and systems, where the idea of a "PI" itself doesn't even apply.

Ken

creator_email	ACDD	global	string	Email address of the person or institution that collected the data.	The email of the person or institution may be found in the NODC tables for persons(http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OAS/prd/person) and institutions(http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OAS/prd/institution). Use the short name of the institution if available.
creator_name	Name of the person who collected the data.	Use the name from the NODC persons(http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OAS/prd/person) table when applicable.
creator_url	The URL of the institution that collected the data.	The url of the institution can be found in the NODC institutions(http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OAS/prd/institution) table.

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