New landing page for the Attribute Conventions for Dataset Discovery

TODO: Add welcome text and discuss/decide how the pages within this category should be organized.

Background

Objectives and Goals

1. To allow dataset discovery and facilitate mapping between dataset metadata (notably netCDF) and ISO 19115.
2. The ACDD Steering Group formalizes changes and additions to ACDD

Governance

ACDD will evolve based on the direction of the steering committee initially comprised of the following members:

• Derrick Snowden (Chair) IOOS
• Dave Blodgett USGS
• Nan Galbraith WHOI
• Ted Habermann HDFGroup
• Steve Hankin PMEL
• Aleksandar Jelenak
• Anna Milan NGDC
• Dave Neufeld CIRES
• Rich Signell USGS
• Bob Simons NMFS

History

Original Version (v1.0): Originally created by Ethan Davis of Unidata in about 2005.

Working version through April 2013 was hosted on the NOAA Environmental Management wiki.

The current version is always found at Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD).