GLIMS Minimum Requirements list

[Luke Copland]

Just a minor comment... it would be useful to be able to link not only
to the WGMS ID, but also to other local systems/names where they are
present. In Canada, for example, there exists a partial National Glacier
Inventory that does not always use the same IDs as WGMS. If this
capability isn't already in the database, it would be good to have the
ability to include it.

Cheers,
Luke.

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Bruce Raup wrote:
> 
> On 2001-07-11 08:21 +0200,  Martin Hoelzle wrote:
> 
> > Desireable would be a link to older data with the help of the
> > WGI-Number or lat & lon. How will the old data be integrated in the
> > database?
> 
> The answer to your question is multi-fold.
> 
> 1.  There is a field in the Glacier_Static table called "wgms_id", which
> is there to link records in the GLIMS database to the World Glacier
> Inventory (WGI).
> 
> 2.  One might ask how this field will be filled in.  It should probably be
> incumbent upon the Regional Center to know the WGI ID of glaciers in its
> region, and send that information along with submissions of data.  It
> might be possible to automate (or semi-automate) the processing of tying
> the two together, but that would take some time and money.
> 
> 3.  Another aspect of integrating new data with the old is continuity.
> The WGI contains many scalar measures and descriptive parameters of
> glaciers, such as profile type (even, hanging, cascading, etc.), length of
> ablation area, mean elevations of various parts of the glacier, etc.
> Although these fields are not currently in the GLIMS data dictionary (at
> http://spot.colorado.edu/~braup/glims_database/), we intend on adding
> many or all of those fields.  This will enable the ingest of WGI data into
> the GLIMS database, as well as allow for the continued recording of such
> data through GLIMS.
> 
> Bruce
> 
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> Bruce Raup
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