Mathew Biddle

To add on to @dsconstable comments. There should be a reference to [GitHub's guidance on CITATION.cff files](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files). The information and services GitHub provides when using a CITATION file make citing...

I think that having a resource, as you describe, would be fantastic. Working at the US IOOS Office, we have some resources and tools we could add to make a...

It would be nice to do something a little higher level wrt netCDF. How to work with netCDF in Python is a question I get quite frequently. Most of the...

@pbuttigieg Looks like you've done a significant amount of work on this already. How can we help get the Biological and Ecosystems part over the line?

Thanks for the feedback @libcce! As I was looking through that lesson, I felt like it was missing the 'so what' and 'where's the benefit of all this'. I guess...

From my experience the main hangup was downloading the `.mat` file for Matlab. Matlab has very specific requirements for variable names that make this a difficult ask. See https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/variable-names.html

> Or maybe automatically create one by removing invalid characters or replacing them with "_"? I think `GenerateDatasetsXml` has some similar logic in it. But, we're reaching the capacity of...

Shapes would probably go in [`footprintWKT`](https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_footprintWKT) and center of the polygons identified with [`decimalLatitude`](https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:decimalLatitude) and [`decimalLongitude`](https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:decimalLongitude)

@nandapm did you mean to close this issue? Or do you plan on working on it during the workshop?

@BoldAlis I updated your comment to put the data snippet in a [code block](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax#quoting-code). This makes it a little easier on the eyes.