Re: 20000530: Price Waterhouse SCHEMAS project questionnaire (reminder)

>From: <address@hidden>
>Subject: To the contactperson of NETCDF
>Organization: PricewaterhouseCoopers
>Keywords: 200005290811.e4T8BWT19365 netCDF questionnaire

Hi Margriet,

> We would like to remind you of the questionnaire that we have sent
> you by e-mail on the 3rd of May 2000 in relation to the SCHEMAS
> project. SCHEMAS aims to provide a forum for metadata schema
> implementers. An important element of the project is the development
> of a Standards Framework. This Standards Framework is focused
> specifically on efforts and initiatives for defining or ratifying
> particular metadata schemas as recognised standards.
>
> The aim of the questionnaire is to obtain a more complete and
> up-to-date picture of the current standardisation initiatives.
>
> Could you please inform us whom to contact instead in case you are
> not the right person to contact? Otherwise we would kindly like to
> ask you to fill out the questionnaire. Your contribution will be
> very much appreciated.

I returned a filled out questionnaire in an email message sent on May
25.  In case you didn't receive the filled-out questionnaire, I've
appended another copy, indented, below.

_____________________________________________________________________

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu


  To: "Makx Dekkers" <address@hidden>,
      address@hidden
  Subject: Re: 20000503: To the contact person for NETCDF 
  In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 07:35:04 MDT."
               <address@hidden> 
  Organization: UCAR Unidata Program
  Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:59:50 -0600
  From: Russ Rew <address@hidden>

  Hi Makx and Margriet,

   ...
  > After a desk research into the current standardisation initiatives
  > we have selected 39 of such initiatives as particularly important
  > for the purposes of SCHEMAS. We would like to include the initiative
  > in which you are involved in the Standards Framework. From the
  > information we have gathered we have understood that you are the
  > person to contact for more information. If this is not correct than
  > please let us know whom to contact instead.

  I'm the right person.

  > We would like to ask you to fill out the attached questionnaire. The
  > aim of the questionnaire is to obtain a more complete and up-to-date
  > picture of the current standardisation initiatives. Because SCHEMAS
  > will monitor the standardisation initiatives for the coming two
  > years we will send you the questionnaire again in the future. The
  > questionnaire is in a text format because of processing reasons.  We
  > would appreciate it if you send us the questionnaire return before
  > the 31st of May 2000.

  OK, I've appended my answers.  I can't provide some of the information
  you've requested, e.g. "Working Group number", and in these cases I've
  just answered with "?".

  --Russ
  _____________________________________________________________________

  Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
  address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu


  SCHEMAS project - http://www.schemas-forum.org/

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  Questionnaire for standardisation initiatives

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  (Please copy this form or repeat sections as appropriate)

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  Platform

  Name: netCDF
  Working Group number: ?
  Web Site (URL): http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/
  Status:       Informal (?).  We support the netCDF APIs for scientific data
      access as if they were standards, and a few institutions and
      standards committees for various data projects have agreed to
      standardize on netCDF as a "standard" data model, data format, and
      data access API for their data archives.  Other projects and
      consortiums have decided to also support sets of "netCDF
      conventions" and document these conventions as if they were
      standards.  See, for example:
         http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/conventions.html

  ......................................................................
  Contact person

  Name: Russell K. Rew
  E-mail:       address@hidden
  Affiliation: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  Role in the activity: responsible for development, maintenance, and
      documentation of netCDF software, associated collaborations, and
      web pages.

  ......................................................................
  Main contributors (Repeat if necessary) 

  Name: John Caron
  E-mail: address@hidden
  Affiliation: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  Role in the activity: responsible for development, maintenance, and
      documentation of Java interface for netCDF data access.  May take
      over role for all netCDF development, maintenance, and
      documentation in the future.

  Name: Steve Emmerson
  E-mail: address@hidden
  Affiliation: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  Role in the activity: responsible for development, maintenance, and
      documentation of Perl and Fortran interface for netCDF data
      access and for installation engineering.

  Name: various other contributors, see 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/credits.html

  ......................................................................
  Standards under consideration
     These are not so much under consideration as in use and being
     informally maintained by their authors or institutions.

  Name of standards:
  1. netCDF: data model, format, and APIs for C, C++, Java, Fortran 77,
     Fortran 90, perl, and Python

  ......................................................................
  ......................................................................
  Information per standard under consideration (repeat this section for 
  each standard under consideration if necessary)

  Standard 1:

  Name:  netCDF
  Full name: Unidata netCDF
  Number:          ?
  Acronym: Network Common Data Form
  Web site: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/
  Status: Published     
  Version: 3.4 (May 1998), 3.5beta3 (May 2000)

  ......................................................................
  Contact person (if different from above)

  Name:
  E-mail:
  Affiliation:
  Role:

  ......................................................................
  Description of the standard:

  Type of material (e.g. text, image, multimedia): data model, format,
      and APIs are specified in the documents available at
      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs.html

  Domain (e.g. education, healthcare): scientific data access

  Objective of the standard: to support the creation, access, and
      sharing of scientific data

  Set-up/maintenance of registry for this standard: none

  Available guidance information (URL): FAQ at
      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html

  Liaisons with other standards activities: none

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  Other points: ?


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  Information on usage (please expand this list if necessary)
  List of projects with name and URL, or link to Web site where this 
  information can be found:

      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/usage.html

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  Future directions, work items, schedules:

      There is a proposal for further development, described at

      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/itr/

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