Aspects of Metadata Usage

[Ref: Bretherton & Singley 1994 Proc of 7th SSDBM, p. 166]

• Search, browse, retrieval (Human)

  • Data extraction and interpretation
  • Navigate among services

• Ingest, quality assurance, (re-)processing

  • Science product generation pipeline
  • Content analysis

• Storage, archive (Data Management)

  • Information relevant for effective system design and operation

• Application to application transfer (Machine)

  • Enable “context” interchange (distributed queries and transformations)

Need transfer language with mappings from conceptual level to different logical representation