CF Roadmap: Discovery metadata

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Topic for discussion

Topic for discussion

At this year's CF Workshop we divided the roadmap preparations into multiple themes. Discovery metadata was of particular interest to a lot of people and how this type of information should be captured through CF, if at all. If you're interested in this topic please comment below! The roadmap publication will include CF's future direction on this topic or direct users to other existing standards which should be used. I've written a few questions to spark discussion:

• Where should discovery metadata be recorded in CF?/how should it be recorded?
• Should discovery metadata be recorded in CF-NetCDF? or links provided to discovery metadata records ie. WCMP2 (WMO Core Metadata Profile standard used for creating metadata records in WIS2 catalogue for example)
• Does anything new need to be introduced? OR can we point towards existing standards i.e. ACDD