Which data format to publish data from Vantage Pro 2 weather station?

Question

I'm looking for a standard data format which can be used to publish weather data collected by a Davis Instrument Vantage Pro 2 weather station.

This is in order to comply to openData movement.

Do you have any JSON/XML/other standard data format that VP2 data should follow to publish its data ?

Answer 1

Take a look at the CF Metadata Convention. It is a convention "designed to promote the processing and sharing of files created with the NetCDF API." NetCDF is a format that can be aware of units, datums, timezones, etc. and CF ensures that this metadata is all coherent.