Glossary

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Term	Description
RTO	Recovery Time Objective is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster, or disruption to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity
RPO	Recovery Point Objective
RM-ODP	Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (ISO/IEC 10746)
register	a system designed to hold records of information of a specific type, usually in reference to external objects
reference implementation	a software implementation of a specification, providing a benchmark for other implementations
reference architecture	an architecture that describes generic, rather than a specific deployed, configuration of components
RDA	Research Data Australia
raster	a rectangular grid of data points (pixels in the case of raster imagery) that may be geo-referenced or rectified (transformed to a geographic coordinate system)
rank	level within a species taxonomy (species, genus, family, class, etc.)