Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
FITS
FILE
DDL
DESCRIPTION
FITS
STANDARD
FITS
DICTIONARY
DDL
SOFTWARE
FITS JAVA
SOFTWARE
DICTIONARY
SPECIFICATION
DDL
DEFINITION
PDF
STANDARD
JAVA VM
PDF
SOFTWARE
XML
SPECIFICATION
UNICODE
SPECIFICATION
Fig. 16.3
FITS file dependencies
The RepInfo Gap Manager manipulates symbols and identifiers and does not
require embedded domain specific knowledge.
16.2.2 Digital Object Storage
The Digital Object Storage (or sometimes simply “Storage”) component takes care
of the “Digital Object” and encapsulates:
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The secure preservation of the bits which encode the information of interest.
This of course applies to a primary Data Object, Representation Information,
Preservation Description Information etc, the latter also being Data Objects.
These individual stored objects form the simplest element in the storage sys-
tem, and each needs only be regarded as opaque binary objects, whose internal
structure need not be known or understood by the Storage system, although the
structure of the AIP, e.g. how to get the PDI object out of the AIP, will be known
to it.
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The association of Representation Information and PDI with the Content
Information. This association may include having copies of the Representation
