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ua-snap / rasdaman-ingest

Collection of ingredients/configurations + docs for ingesting data into Rasdaman
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Consider switching metadata encodings to JSON instead of XML #44

Open kyleredilla opened 2 years ago

kyleredilla commented 2 years ago

This seems like a better option for encoding metadata. This would require corresponding API changes.

e.g., instead of 

  "metadata": {
          "type": "xml",
          "global": {
            "Title": "'CMIP5 GIPL Model Output 4 km magt alt'",...

Use

  "metadata": {
          "type": "json",
          "global": {
            "Title": "'CMIP5 GIPL Model Output 4 km magt alt'",
charparr commented 2 years ago

I think this change would make it easier to parse this information (and more, XREF #24) in the API and reduce the number of instances where we have to manually prescribe metadata.