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XML documents would prevent them from reading the Data Entity Description
Specification Language (DEDSL) dictionary which allows users to correctly inter-
pret the parameter codes and therefore the contents of the data file causing critical
failure of the solution and the preservation objective. In other words, if the net-
work paths shown as dashed fail there may be no way to understand the data in
the file.
14.11.4 Re-usable Solutions and Registry Repositories
of Representation Information
If we look at the network section above in
Fig. 14.14
, the objects and relationships
described allow a user to extract the desired parameters from NetCDF formatted
files. There are eight different strategies a user can employ all of which must fail
before there is a critical failure of the solution. As this section of the network has
a specific well defined function which is to allow a user to extract parameters from
NetCDF formatted files, the solution can be deposited within a Registry/Repository
of Representation Information. It can then be reused as part of wider solution for
different atmospheric data sets which utilize the format. In this way the effort put in
to creating and maintaining the RIN can cover a very great number of data objects.
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Fig. 14.14
Preservation network model of a NetCDF reusable solution
