Development: System Design
- A simple view of the MOOS architecture
- SSDS architecture
- Deployment architecture (Overview size)
- Detailed design elements (just to give an idea of the complexity)
- Object model (OO model)
- Relational database model (database schema)
- Flat file storage
- Flat ASCII files (data format for each described by XML)
- Binary data packets stored in SSDS
- Net CDF files
- Metadata for SSDS
- Details of SSDS Metadata Management
- Implications of SSDS for instrument developers: define up front the data that you produce
- What do the words mean? The ontological problem
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Metadata collaboration(s) related to the metadata challenges
- The Complete Guide: The Marine Metadata Interoperability Project. Just started but growing quickly.
- A precursor effort: The Marine Metadata Workshop and Marine Metadata Initiative. Some good references here.
- MBARI data: The "Standard Naming Exercise" (note the External References page)
