To clarify my final statement. When I say 'huge' I am referring to the
community utilizing and exchanging these data formats over the internet.
The primary example of the scale, breadth, depth and diversity of the
community I am referring to can be seen every fall in San Francisco when
over 22,000 of the worlds leading earth and geophysical scientists come
together for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. I would hazard a
guess that only a handfull of the attendees there have never heard of the
scientific data formats we are referring to above. I'll state again that I
think it would be a huge injustice if this WG did not engage fully with
that community of educated users.
Lewis
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:09 AM, lewis john mcgibbney <lewismc@apache.org>
wrote:
>
> Agreed. The agenda Bruce and I are bringing to the surface here is huge
> and extremely important for us all (regardless of whether we work directly
> with the named data formats or not). I feel that the WG would be doing a
> huge injustice if it were not to engage with this agenda.
>
> Maybe, we could form a sub group, just as has been done with other topics,
> to address this area? Just a thought.
> Thanks.
> Lewis
>