Attribute Convention for Data Discovery ISO Translation Notes
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The translation between the Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery is subject to a number of assumptions or conventions described here.
People[edit | edit source]
The ACDD includes several types of people:
ACDD Attributes | ISO Locations |
creator_name, creator_email, creator_url, institution | citation/citedResponsibleParty role=originator |
contributor_name, contributor_role | citation/citedResponsibleParty role=originator or author (may need adjustment) |
publisher_name, publisher_email, publisher_url | 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 |
project | Project keyword, aggregation information (initiative type = project) |
Keywords[edit | edit source]
The ACDD includes several attributes that make sense as keywords in ISO:
ACDD Attributes | ISO Locations |
keywords | theme keywords with thesaurus given by the keywords_vocabulary attribute |
project | Project keyword with unknown thesaurus and aggregation information (initiative type = project) |
publisher_name | Data Center keyword with unknown thesaurus |
standard_names for parameters | theme keywords with thesaurus = standard_name_vocabulary |
Translation Revisions[edit | edit source]
Several changes were introduced into 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.