I've been using the nco-json spec since the lengthy discussions last year
on the... nco mailing list? I fully support nco-json as the path forward.
Here is a python snippet to extract and apply nco-json to a netcdf4-python
object:
https://github.com/pyoceans/pocean-core/blob/master/pocean/dataset.py#L74-L195
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 2:32 PM Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <
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> Bob Simons asked me to reply with the following, as he is not on the
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> I like/vote for NCO's .json format
> http://nco.sourceforge.net/nco.html#json
> A simple set of rules converts any .nc file into one of these .json files.
> These .json files are human readable and machine readable.
> I particularly like the lvl=2 "pedantic" format, because it includes 100%
> of the information in the original .nc file, thus allowing for the
> possibility of a round trip (.nc -> .json -> .nc) with no loss of
> information.
>
> -Roy
>
> > On Sep 11, 2018, at 8:49 AM, Dennis Heimbigner <dmh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Has the community ever achieved consensus on a standard translation
> > of netcdf-4 to Json? It seems to me that Unidata might usefully serve
> > as a repository for such a standard if it exists.
> > =Dennis Heimbigner
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