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Definitions of Terms
Document Types
- Standard - specification approved by a recognized standards body such as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF®)
- Convention - specification in common use among some members of the NASA ESDS community
- In practice, Standard and Convention are often used interchangeably.
- Suggested Practice - guidance on how to apply a particular standard or convention within the NASA ESDS community
- Lessons Learned - document describing the use of software, protocols or processes that may be helpful to others
- Technical Note - other technical document of interest to the community
- Administrative Document - used to manage the standards process.
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Resource Types
- Software - library or toolkit available for use
- Specification - document describing a format or protocol in sufficient detail that it can be independently implemented in software
- Process - steps that can be followed to reach a desired result
- Technical Note - other technical document of interest to the community
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Technology Area- Data Format
- Metadata
- Discovery and Access
- Process
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Review StatusDefines current position in the standards review process: - Legacy - formal review has been bypassed for a legacy standard in common usage
- Monitoring - up and coming technology to watch, not yet described in an RFC
- In development - document is being written
- Submitted - document has been submitted for evaluation
- In review - community comment and ESO evaluation in progress
- Final - published document
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Recommendation
- Approved - recommended for use in NASA Earth science data systems
- Emerging - promising technology, not rigorously reviewed or widely adopted yet
- Limited / Restricted - approved for use only in certain circumstances
- Deprecated - don't choose for new projects
- Obsoleted - no longer in use
- Proposed / In Process - placeholder until recommendation is made
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