View source for Attribute Convention for Data Discovery ISO Translation Notes

The translation between the Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery is subject to a number of assumptions or conventions described here.
==People==
The ACDD includes several types of people:
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<td>'''ACDD Attributes'''</td>
<td>'''ISO Locations'''</td></tr>
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<td>creator_name, creator_email, creator_url, institution</td>
<td>citation/citedResponsibleParty role=originator</td>
<tr>
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<td>contributor_name, contributor_role</td>
<td>citation/citedResponsibleParty role=originator or author (may need adjustment)</td>
</tr>
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<td>publisher_name, publisher_email, publisher_url</td>
<td>citation/citedResponsibleParty role=publisher if in reference to traditional document publication
MD_Distributor/distributorContact role=distributor if in reference to agent who is hosting the resource for access</td>
</tr>
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<td>project</td>
<td>Project keyword, aggregation information (initiative type = project)</td>
</tr>

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==Keywords==
The ACDD includes several attributes that make sense as keywords in ISO:
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<td>'''ACDD Attributes'''</td>
<td>'''ISO Locations'''</td>
</tr>
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<td>keywords</td>
<td>theme keywords with thesaurus given by the keywords_vocabulary attribute</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>project</td>
<td>Project keyword with unknown thesaurus and aggregation information (initiative type = project)</td>
</tr>
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<td>publisher_name</td>
<td>Data Center keyword with unknown thesaurus</td>
</tr>
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<td>standard_names for parameters</td>
<td>theme keywords with thesaurus = standard_name_vocabulary</td>
</tr>

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=Translation Revisions=
Several changes were introduced into [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsl/UnidataDD2MI.xsl Version 2.0.2] of the stylesheet for transforming NcML to ISO in order to improve the rubric score for the resulting ISO metadata. The changes included:
#Including netcdf/@location in transform as distribution onlineResource
#Added tagname to writeResponsibleParty so that responsibleParties with 
different UML roles could be supported (i.e. contact vs. distributor)
#Added urlName and urlDescription to writeResponsibleParty to add 
content to the onlineResource
#Moved publisher from citation to distributor and included publisher_name as a dataCenter keyword.
#Added project as a keyword with type=project
#Added distributionInfo section to ISO if publisher or location exist.

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