Anderson Banihirwe

Thank you for the heads up, @naomi-henderson! ```python In [7]: df.head() Out[7]: activity_id institution_id source_id experiment_id member_id table_id variable_id grid_label zstore time_start time_stop 0 AerChemMIP BCC BCC-ESM1 ssp370 r1i1p1f1 Amon...

@naomi-henderson, `intake-esm` relies on harvesting all necessary information from filename or directory structure without needing to open the file/store. My goal in NCAR/intake-esm#135 is to make sure that the database...

> They are very useful when using qgrid to quickly find all data that goes from one date to another, find the longest piControl runs, check which ensemble members span...

@naomi-henderson, I updated the gist, and fixed the truncated `storelist.txt` file.

> Is there any way to just use the DSV file directly? I think this is doable (I haven't explored it yet). One potential problem with this approach is granting...

I'd be happy to contribute some content as well.

> I think YAML is nevertheless a great approach since I can give it to non-python colleagues and they can still add their experiments or datasets. For [our use case](https://intake-esm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/tutorial.html),...

> ( ^ @andersy005 , can you please link to the implementation, for @pgierz 's inspiration) Sure :) @pgierz, when you get a chance take a look at https://github.com/andersy005/intake-esm/blob/extract-entries-by-key/intake_esm/core.py.

> Do I understand correctly that you define your own arguments needed for your specialized subclass first, and then dump all the other arguments to the intake.catalog.Catalog constructor? That's right

This issue may overlap with #9, #8