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collection collection

A user defined group of data sets.

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Content Management System (CMS)

Data Extraction:

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extraction extraction

  A transformation that creates new data from the given data.  An example in the case of Brown Dog would be the execution of analysis code on an image file's contents to determine if a particular species of plant is present.  We utilize extraction to automatically generate metadata and/or signatures from a file's contents and provide users with means of finding, relating, and utilizing data that may be difficult otherwise.

Data Set:

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dataset dataset

A group of files that through some defined relations or corresponding metadata are strongly tied together and not representable otherwise by the individual files.

Extractor:

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extractor extractor

A tool which takes a file, section of a file, data set, or collection as input and through some analysis of the contents produces some higher level information, e.g. metadata, or other derived product, e.g. preview, to aid users in searching/organizing data (both automatically and/or manually).

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file file

The lowest level unit of information that can be tracked.  This is a file from a file system.

Metadata:

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metadata metadata

Simply data about data (e.g. tags or keywords).

Preview

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section section

A subset of a files contents (e.g. a sub-image, a line from a document, a frame from a video, etc...).  A sections is tied to a file.

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Technical Metadata

User Metadata

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