Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Tom, >Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:16:20 CDT >From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Emmerson) >Subject: Re: quantity database In the above message, you wrote: > OK, so maybe I'm issing something, but the other part of my message > dealt with the notion of standard 'names', and why that is an important > issue. I believe it's important for VisAD as well -- if I write code > to work with, say, temperature and pressure, where will the translation > take place between the "names" that I use in the program and the > "names" that someone put into a database? I would hope that the > software would not have to be changed everytime I aimed it at a netCDF > file with a different "name" for temperature... Am i missing > something, worrying about this connection to the databases? I envision a standard set of quantities (where a "quantity" is a name/MathType pair) that would come with VisAD. This is what I'm currently working on. We'll also need a mechanism for customizing the quantities for specific disciplines and even user sessions. -------- Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
visad archives: