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3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this report, the definitions specified in Clause 4 of the OWS Common Implementation Specification [OGC 06-121r3] and in OpenGIS
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Abstract Specification shall apply. In addition, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
feature representation of some real world object or phenomenon
3.2
interoperability capability to communicate, execute programs or transfer data among various functional
units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units
3.3
metadata data about data
3.4
model abstraction of some aspects of a universe of discourse
3.5
ontology a formal specification of concrete or abstract things, and the relationships among them, in
a prescribed domain of knowledge [ISOIEC 19763]
3.6
semantic interoperability the aspect of interoperability that assures that the content is understood in the same way
in both systems, including by those humans interacting with the systems in a given context
3.7
syntactic interoperability the aspect of interoperability that assures that there is a technical connection, i.e. that the
data can be transferred between systems
4 Conventions