This page contains recommendations adopted by the NASA Earth Science Data System (ESDS) Dataset Interoperability Working Group (DIWG). They are meant to increase and enhance the interoperability of Earth Science data product files by improving their compliance, discoverability, and extensibility with relevant metadata conventions. These recommendations are extracts from the recommendations documents published by the ESDIS Standards Coordination Office (ESCO). They have been copied verbatim with only formatting changes. If there are any differences between the two versions, the ESCO-published documents should be considered as accurate.

This page will be updated as new recommendations are adopted.

Glossary

ACDDAttribute Convention for Dataset Discovery
ASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange
attributeHDF5 attribute or netCDF attribute
APIApplication Program Interface
CCBConfiguration Change Board
CCRConfiguration Change Request
CDMUnidata Common Data Model
CFClimate and Forecast Metadata Conventions
CRSCoordinate Reference System
COARDSCooperative Ocean/Atmospheric Research Data Service
DAACDistributed Active Archive Center
DIWGDataset Interoperability Working Group
EOSDISEarth Observing System Data and Information System
ESDSEarth Science Data Systems
ESDISEarth Science Data and Information System
ESDSWGEarth Science Data System Working Groups
ESIPFederation of Earth Science Information Partners
ESCOESDIS Standards Coordination Office
groupHDF5 group or netCDF group
GSFCGoddard Space Flight Center
HDFHierarchical Data Format
HDF4Hierarchical Data Format, version 4
HDF5Hierarchical Data Format, version 5
HDF-EOSHierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System
HDF-EOS5Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System, version 5
HPDHDF Product Designer
IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISOInternational Organization for Standardization
JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory
MCCMetadata Compliance Checker
NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
NaNNot-a-Number
ncksnetCDF Kitchen Sink
NCOnetCDF Operator
ncpdqnetCDF Permute Dimensions Quickly
ncwanetCDF Weighted Averager
netCDFNetwork Common Data Form
netCDF3Network Common Data Form, version 3
netCDF4Network Common Data Form, version 4
NUGNetCDF User Guide
OGCOpen Geospatial Consortium
OPeNDAPOpen-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol
RFCRequest For Comments
THREDDSThematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services
UTCUniversal Time Coordinated (also: Coordinated Universal Time)
UTF-8Unicode Transformation Format—8-bit
variableHDF5 dataset or netCDF variable
WGS-84World Geodetic System 84
WKTWell-Known Text
XMLExtensible Markup Language

Recommendations Approved by ESCO

Additional Recommendations Awaiting Formal ESCO Approval