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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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