Extensible Metadata Repository for Information Systems - RUN UNL ...
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To provide evidence that the <strong>Metadata</strong> <strong>Repository</strong> complies with the requirements listed in<br />
section 3.1, two validation tests were conducted: The SESS tests and the ITDS test. The tests involved<br />
the creation of Fragment and Concept definitions (including definition of automatic relations based<br />
on content) and loading those Fragments and Concepts in the repository as well as loading a set of<br />
Instances and afterwards checking if the relations were successfully captured and the external<br />
metadata integrated.<br />
6.1. Space Environment Support System - SESS<br />
The Space Environment Support System (SESS) project, previously presented in section 1.2, was<br />
developed to monitor space weather and spacecraft phenomenon. In the project, a metadata<br />
repository was developed to store and manage metadata. The repository’s in<strong>for</strong>mation model was<br />
also based on MOF and featured the notions of Concepts and Instances represented as XML Schemas<br />
and XML documents, respectively. To model all of the domain metadata, a set of Concepts was<br />
created and Instances were produced as a result of normal system operation. To test if this <strong>Metadata</strong><br />
<strong>Repository</strong> complied with the requirements presented in section 3.1, two tests were made using the<br />
content of the SESS project. The first test consisted in the integration of the XML Schemas of SESS’s<br />
Concepts and loading of the XML documents; the second required modeling the set of SESS’s<br />
Concepts into Fragments and Concepts of this repository and then loading Instances. The list of<br />
Concepts used in this validation includes the full list of Concepts that modeled the domain of the<br />
project (and are described in<br />
Table 6.1) as well as a small set of Concepts that represented technical metadata (depicted in<br />
Figure 6.1).<br />
Table 6.1 List of Concepts from SESS project<br />
Concept Description Instances<br />
Ground Base<br />
Stations located on the earth that per<strong>for</strong>m S/W measurements using<br />
dedicated instruments<br />
28<br />
Ground Station<br />
Stations located on the earth that are used <strong>for</strong> transmitting<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation to or receiving in<strong>for</strong>mation from a S/C<br />
4<br />
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