2007 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > libcf: A New Library for CF Conventions Support
10.1 Goals of LibCF
LibCF is being developed to help climate scientists share their data.
The goals of the LibCF project:
- Make using CF Convetions easier for readers and writers of data.
- Reduce duplication of effort in I/O code in user applications.
- Ensure CF conforming files.
- Provide a geo-science API for netCDF.
- Provide some of the advanced features developed for netCDF-Java.
- Work with both netCDF-3 and netCDF-4/HDF5 files.
2007 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > libcf: A New Library for CF Conventions Support