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Define basic standards of CEDA checks for NC and BADC CSV formats #6

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@agstephens

@wendygarland @gap736uk : Please add to the following bullets for the NC and BADC CSV data format basic checks...

NetCDF basic checks

  • Conventions: should match a list of known conventions and their versions (optionally more than one convention adhered to)
  • source, creator_name and institution: should be more than 3 characters?
  • All variables: have long_name and units ,
  • All variables: ought to have a standard_name

BADC CSV basic checks

BADC-CSV list of requirements can be read from here: https://archive.ceda.ac.uk/cgi-bin/badccsv/csvchecker

BADC-CSV minumum checks (i.e. basic level of compliance):

  • first line has to be: Conventions,G,BADC-CSV, 1
  • all column metadata elements have long_name attribute - this needs to have 2 elements: <desription>,<unit>
  • len(list of long_names) == len(column header line when split by comma)
  • has data line and last line is end data
  • all lines between data and end data lines have the same number of elements as the number of long_name elements in header section

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