..., and technology-independent data format are discussed and analyzed. The data structure, objects, and metadata are deducted from the use case technology laser powder bed fusion. Based on this, an open-source reference implementation of a new format prototype, the Open Vector Format using Google Protocol Buffers...

...) or accessed from the DBMS set up for the time series data. For effective use and application of the data, all require information on the parameters being captured. For GIS data, this information is described as elements in ASTM D 5714-95 Content Specifications for Geospatial Metadata. geospatial...

... Guide for Application of a Ground-Water Flow Model to a Site Specific Problem (ASTM D 5447). Graphics files and maps can be prepared of the values in the raster data sets and associated GIS vector data sets. Metadata prepared for the GIS data sets within the interface can provide supporting information...

... ASTM and the Federal Geographic Data Committee have developed a content standard for spatial metadata to facilitate documentation, discovery, and retrieval of digital spatial data using vendor-independent terminology. Spatial metadata elements are identifiable quality and content characteristics...

... standardization computerization term bank data capture thesaurus glossary data dictionary hypertext metadata concept representation knowledge representation term harmonization Walter Grattidge ~and Jack H. Westbrook ~ Current Trends in Terminological Activity as Seen by Practitioners REFERENCE...

.... The benefits E49 expects from its terminological work are outlined as well as its plans for the future. computerized data validation databases definitions E49 glossary harmonization of terms and definitions materials metadata term records term types Jack H. Westbrook ~and Walter Grattidgez...

... allowed values for those terms (of which 500 are qualitative values). These terms, together with their definitions, hierarchical relations, and allowed values, form the core of the metadata needed to define both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the data. Software programs, written for the data...

... the desired set of searchable records used to form the database. materials data computerization database canonical data record constraint denormalization linkage metadata terminology validation Walter Grattidge, I W. Bruce Lund, 2 and Jack H. Westbrook I PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION...

... and inheritance. concepts data dictionaries frames inheritance knowledge materials databases materials expert systems metadata numeric databases ontology relationships terminology thesaurus Philip Sargent, 1Eswaran Subrahmanian,2 Mary Downs,3 Reid Greene,3 and Diane Rishel 3 MATERIALS...

... A rich set of metadata is required to integrate data values into a materials data-base. These metadata range from descriptions of the materials involved, the properties, independent variables, units, source of the data value, associated statistical descriptors, footnotes, and references...

... database data dictionary data model format interchange layered approach materials metadata nonbibliographic numeric properties protocol relational model semantic data models syntax tables tabular databases data thesaurus Philip M. Sargent ~ Use of Abstraction in Creating Data...

... stored as relational databases. A data structure similar to the four level data file structure for high temperature materials described by Kröckel and Westbrook was used for metadata. This provides traceability and factual information about the specimens and test conditions used to obtain a particular...

... contains six general constructs for modeling the complex relationships (or associations) among data objects. These constructs can be used in an embedded or recursive fashion to allow very complex objects to be explicitly defined in a schema that contains the metadata of an integrated data base...

...); and Graphs (point sets, curve sets, or range sets). Generic templates have been developed to identify and record the metadata as well as guide the capture of the common and separate features with the associated presentation logics for the different formats. Procedures for data capture for tables and graphs...