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Standards and Software
Interoperability is the key to distributed data management system success and it is achieved in SeaDataNet by:
- Using common vocabularies
- Adopting the ISO 19115 metadata standard for all metadata directories
- Providing XML Validation Services to quality control the XML metadata maintenance
- Using harmonised Data Transport Formats for data sets delivery
- Using common quality control protocols and flag scale
- Providing standard software tools
- Providing a Central User Register and single-sign-on AAA Services
- Using SOAP Web Services in the SeaDataNet architecture