Glossary
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Description |
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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.) |