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Jeff, Another aspect, besides keeping track of versions, and supplying various APIs, is that of an audit trail to a registry. XML type technologies need to validate models, structures and codelists. I am keen that WMO offers some kind of registry service (though this could be from a database) to support web services with URIs etc. Copies could be cached locally to imporve performance. Gil Ross is preparing a paper on the various approaches. I think this correspondance betwseen you, enrico, José and Eizi is very relevant. Best wishes, Chris Chris Little OGC Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group International Telecoms & Projects Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom Tel: +44(0)1392 886278 Fax: +44(0)1392 885681 Mobile: +44(0)7753 880514 E-mail: chris.little@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.metoffice.gov.uk -----Original Message----- From: bufrtables-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bufrtables-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of José Mauro de Rezende Sent: 16 June 2011 23:17 To: Jeff Ator; Eric Wise; Paul Zamiska; leslie.baran@xxxxxxxx; Lamar Troutman; Enrico Fucile; Sibylle Krebber; Atsushi Shimazaki; Eizi Toyoda; Weedon, Richard; Yves Pelletier; Simon Elliott; Jose Mauro de Rezende; Weiqing Qu; Stan Kellett; bufrtables@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [bufrtables] BUFR and GRIB2 table information in relational DB? Hi Jeff, My colleague did some work regarding BUFR tables, inserting them on a MySQL data base. This was done some years ago. We stopped that because we started using other encoders and decoders. WE thought that time a data base would be a good way to deal with all those tables. I did some work converting all thos doc tables provided by WMO into a excel ones and my friend imported all of then into the data base. Of coarse, it is very out of date now. I did not worked with GRIB tables that time. JMauro. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Ator" <Jeff.Ator@xxxxxxxx> To: "Eric Wise" <wisee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Paul Zamiska" <paul.zamiska@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <leslie.baran@xxxxxxxx>; "Lamar Troutman" <lamar.troutman@xxxxxxxx>; "Enrico Fucile" <enrico.fucile@xxxxxxxxx>; "Sibylle Krebber" <Sibylle.Krebber@xxxxxx>; "Atsushi Shimazaki" <AShimazaki@xxxxxxx>; "Eizi Toyoda" <toyoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Richard Weedon" <richard.weedon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Yves Pelletier" <yves.pelletier@xxxxxxxx>; "Simon Elliott" <Simon.Elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Jose Mauro de Rezende" <jmauro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Weiqing Qu" <w.qu@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Stan Kellett" <Stanley.Kellett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bufrtables@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:59 PM Subject: BUFR and GRIB2 table information in relational DB? > Hi Everyone, > > This is more of a general survey question. Here at NCEP, we currently > have our BUFR and GRIB2 master table information scattered across a > bunch of ASCII tables, web pages and system files. We're thinking > about designing and implementing a relational database to store all of > this information in one place, and then developing methods to allow > the information to be easily exported from the database into the > specific formats we need for all of our APIs and other operational > tasks. We believe the BUFR and GRIB2 tables lend themselves well to > relational database design (especially when multiple versions of > tables including local entries need to be stored), and having one > master repository would alleviate problems we're currently having > keeping information synchronized across multiple system files and documents. > > My question is, has anyone out there ever done or thought about doing > this type of thing? If so, we'd be interested to correspond with you > about your experiences, issues encountered, best practices, etc. and > explore any possible avenues for collaboration. It's hard for us to > believe that nobody else has ever thought of this before, so if at all > possible we'd like to benefit from any existing experience in the > community and avoid re-inventing the proverbial wheel. > > Please let me know if you have any thoughts or experience in this area > that you'd be willing to share. Either way, thanks for your time and > consideration! > > With best regards, > -Jeff > _______________________________________________ bufrtables mailing list bufrtables@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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