Add aka region

[mankoff]

Each dataset should have an optional region.

region: top/sub/name

Where top can be one of greenland, antarctica, or large area (arctic, himalaya, europe, etc.) or country (norway, switzerland, etc.?
And sub can be a sub-region (greenland/southwest, antarctica/thwaites/)

And name needs to be a name for the dataset. For other akas, it is easy to pick a name (for example, author/someone_yyyy or organization/GEUS/AWS. It is a bit trickier to pick a dataset name for each region.

Optional

Require or suggest a geospatial.{kml,gpkg} for each dataset so we support geospatial search and potentially can contribute to https://journalmap.org/

[MartinLuethi]

Sounds good in general. But it is not clear to me, why the hierarchy is indicated with the / character.
In YAML we can give explicit hierarchies, which are parsed automatically, and which can also include several sub-topics.
To expand on your example:

region: greenland
    subregion: southwest
         name: KNS
         name: Nordbo
         name: other_cool_glacier

Having some geospatial information in the meta file seems to be very important. Here I would require at least one coordinate.

position:  -49.32,  69.5
    kml:  optionally the kml filename
    polygon:  optionally a polygon in WKT or similar (SVG) format

[AdrienWehrle]

In YAML we can give explicit hierarchies, which are parsed automatically, and which can also include several sub-topics.

Fully agree with this!

PS: Tinu, I just edited your comment. On Github you can insert code starting with triple ` followed by the language, and close it with the same triple.

[mankoff]

Yes - I forgot of this YAML feature.