Glossary
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Description |
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F5 BIG-IP |
a load balancing product from provider F5. |
faceted browse |
a paradigm for data discovery based on filtering along multiple dimensions within a faceted classification system; distinct from a hierarchical navigation or direct text search |
feature |
an abstraction of a real-world phenomenonÑusually a type of domain feature, or a specific instance |
feature store |
a logical database containing a set of feature instances |
feature-of-interest |
a feature (normally an environmental geography or other domain feature) upon which environmental observations are made |
federated |
of an information platform, where the components are deployed at multiple geographic locations and on different computational nodes |
federation |
logical or physical aggregation of (meta) data harvested from multiple federated data providers |
field survey |
an observing method involving a human observer applying a standardised observing protocol at a specific field location |
filter |
a constraint that may be applied during dataset querying to restrict the returned result set |
filtering |
the act of applying a filter during a data querying operation |
find.ga.gov.au |
Web address for FIND, the Australian GovernmentÕs spatial data catalogue. In conjunction with data.gov.au it provides access to a network of open government data. FIND allows search and download of a wide range of spatially-referenced datasets created by the Australian and State and Territory governments. |
FSDF |
Foundation Spatial Data Framework |
FTC |
Feature Type Catalogue |