Proposed new specification for THREDDSS Catalogs

[John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A proposed new version of the THREDDS Dataset Inventory Catalog is ready 
for your comments. Please send them to thredds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or to me.

The new spec was created in collaboration with NCAR's Community Data 
Portal group. It adds new types of information for "enhanced catalogs" 
to facilitate interaction with search services and digital libraries.

Annotated specification is at:

 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/techNew/catalog/InvCatalogSpec.html

Tutorial (not complete) is at:

 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/techNew/catalog/Primer.html

The new spec is based on XML Schema. The schema is at

 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/schemas/thredds/InvCatalog.1.0.xsd

Changes from version 0.6:

 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/techNew/catalog/Changes1.0.txt


Thanks for any comments on this spec.