1. New Dog You Met Conventions Ted Habermann NOAA EDMC May 2012 Data needs to be in tools Document

2. Standards and conventions are important

3. Discovery Conventions for discovery, use, and understanding Use Understanding

4. Current Conventions Discovery Use / Mashup Understanding Climate-Forecast (CF) Conventions Standard variable names and data organizations Unidata Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD) New Conventions Climate-Forecast (CF) Conventions Standard variable names and data organizations

5. Related parameters are grouped into objects

6. Dogs have names

7. Dogs have names and breeds

8. Dogs have names and breeds and favorites

9. Parameter With Value: Object With Related Parameters: Current New

10. Parameter With Value: Object With Related Parameters and Metadata: Current New

11. <nc:attribute name=“UUID” value=“8b6cad50-9c44-11e1-a8b0-0800200c9a66”/> <nc:attribute name=“UUID” value=“8b6cad51-9c44-11e1-a8b0-0800200c9a66”/> <nc:attribute name=“UUID” value=“8b6cad52-9c44-11e1-a8b0-0800200c9a66”/> Dogs have names, breeds and favorites and metadata

12. The ISO Metadata Standard (19115) Metadata contains simple objects

13. The ISO Metadata Standard (19115) Those objects have properties

14. People/Organizations

15. Citations

16. ISO Lineage Model Source Step Product Processing and Algorithm Descriptions

17. Lineage

18. Lineage

19. <nc:attribute name=“UUID” value=“8b6cad51-9c44-11e1-a8b0-0800200c9a66”/> <nc:attribute name=“UUID” value=“8b6cad52-9c44-11e1-a8b0-0800200c9a66”/> <nc:attribute name=“UUID” value=“8b6cad54-9c44-11e1-a8b0-0800200c9a66”/> Lineage with references

20. Technology exists High-quality metadata requires objects / groups of related attributes Conventions are the next step Join the ESIP Documentation Cluster to make it happen