DODS and Interoperability
Because DODS is a bottom up system, emphasis with regard
to interoperability begins at the data level.
Interoperability at the data level requires:
- Seamless access to data from the user's
application
- Uniform syntactic metadata.
- A common description of the data within
the user's application
- Uniform semantic (use) metadata.
Interoperability at the data level is not dependent on interoperability
at the directory and inventory levels.