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CoverageJSON Community Meeting, 2026-10-07, 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
Apologies:
- Tom Kralidis, MSC
- Jon Blower, NOC
- Shane Mill, NOAA NWS
- Tiago Quintino, ECMWF
- Mark Burgoyne, Met Office
- Adam Warde, ECMWF
Agenda:
Progress, including previous actions
Pull Requests - None
Issues
- The JSON Schema is a build of the Draft-07 dialect. Other dialects are needed, especially 2020-12 for compatibility with OpenAPI 3.1. The current work in IETF on JSON Schema standardisation seems compatible. Repo Workflow allows the build of Draft-07, 2019 or 2020 dialects, named
coveragejson-dialect.json. 2020 dialect has been tested by @mrauhala. - V1.1 Additional dimensions one only or n generalised as in EDR, Common Part 2 and Coverages APIs [To be discussed at future meetings]
- V1.1 Additional dimensions may cause problems with validating responses. Additional dimensions are already allowed, but not validated.
ACTIONS:
- V1.0.1 Posted to Pending, Scott requested for formal vote with 45 day review period.
- 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. Some limited schema checking can then be done.
- 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. Domain Types allow stricter and easier schema checking than more generic dimensions. [tbd]
Alignments:
- V1.1 and OpenAPI V3.1 needed for consistency with API-EDR Part 1: Core V1.2, which is now published.
Any Other Business:
Date of Next Meeting: Wed 21 Oct 2026, 15:00 UTC (09:00 MDT, 11:00 EDT, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CEST, 23:00 CST, Thurs 01:00 AET)