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Characterisation Data Model RFC

This document will act as RFC centre for the Characterisation Data Model 1.11 Proposed Recommendation.

Review period: 01 Jun 2007 to 4 Jul 2007

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CharacterisationAxis class (by FabienChereau):

Hello, instead of having many collections of Properties for each instance of Characterisation (like Resolution, SamplingPrecision etc..) one for each axis as shown in Figure 4, why don't you have only one collection of a CharacterisationAxis class which itself would contains the properties for this axis? I think it would make the design clearer. It is also convenient because to each CharacterisationAxis instance can be associated a single coordinate frame which also apply to each property.

Response (by Main.Mireille.Louys):

The XML representation of the model has this feature , that is each CharacterisationAxis is a node underwhich we have the properties: coverage, resolution, Sampling for this axis. For the model we want to keep the symetry , the matrix-like design that is shown in the different examples. One could search / group the metadata in a Property first order and have , for example Resolution , for all axes, then Coverage, for all axes, etc... When the axes are not independant, that is Space depends on time, for instance, Resolution may be represented by a multi-variable function of all axes, and will be hooked in the Resolution Class.