2026 07 29

CoverageJSON Community Meeting, 2026-07-29, Wednesday, 15:00 UTC (09:00 MDT, 11:00 EDT, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CEST, 23:00 CST, Thurs 01:00 AET)

Attendees:

• Chris Little, Met Office
• Paul Hershberg, NOAA NWS
• Mark Burgoyne, Met Office
• Adam Warde, ECMWF
• Jon Blower, UK NOC

Apologies:

• Tiago Quintin
• Steve Olson
• Shame Mill

Agenda:

Progress, including previous actions

Pull Requests

• Schemas to match agreed V1.0.1 normative text added to repo, errors corrected [Approved and merged]
• Workflows need to be added to OGC repo [added, but fails write. Chris will request permissions or agree fallback]

Issues

• The JSON Schema is a build of the Draft-07 dialect. Other dialects may be needed, such as 2019 and 2020 (latter needed for compatibility with OpenAPI 3.1) and perhaps future changes from IETF JSON Schema.[The Workflow allows the build of Draft-07, 2019 or 2020 dialects]
• V1.1 Additional dimensions one only or n generalised as in EDR, Common Part 2 and Coverages APIs [To be discussed at future meetings]

ACTIONS:

• V1.0.1 Adam previously agreed to create workflow to build schema bundle [DONE, but ongoing]
• V1.0.1 All agreed ready for formal approval. [Chris will ascertain formal route.]
• V1.1 Jerome will demonstrate an easily built client with support for multiple extra dimensions [tbd]
• V1.1 Agreed that any added generic dimensions could be for a new Domain DataCube only, rather than all pre-defined Domain types, such as Grid
• V1.1 Mark will open issues and develop a PR for the preferred, simpler option to add a single extra dimension e("extra" or "ensemble") Should be straightforward to add to each of existing pre-defined Domain types [tbd]

Alignments:

• V1.1 needed for consistency with API-EDR Part 1: Core V1.2.

Any Other Business: NONE

Date of Next Meeting: Wed 12 Aug 2026, 15:00 UTC (09:00 MDT, 11:00 EDT, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CEST, 23:00 CST, Thurs 01:00 AET)