Table 34. Technology Alternatives for the Capability, Data Discovery and Access Single Multiple Catalog Catalogs Semantic Search Technology Search + + Virtual Alternative on Semantics Semantics Search Indexing Products Ontologies + Data + Data Quality Quality Technology Search Search Search Search Search Search Category federated search that search that searching or keyword uses contextual uses harvesting of for virtual controlled search across info and contextual info different products vocabulary multiple domain (on demand), content which may search (single catalogs knowledge retrieves types include catalog) captured in an results related including data/images ontology by higher-level higher-level that have concepts on concepts not been the fly acquired or Description products that do not exist yet; includes getting status of sensors and timeframes, etc. Entry TRL 3 3 3 2 2 3 in 2010 Intermediate 5 5 5 3 4 5 TRL
Table 34. Technology Alternatives for the Capability, Data Discovery and Access Technology Alternative Single Catalog + Semantics + Data Quality Multiple Catalogs + Semantics + Data Quality Semantic Search on Ontologies Search Indexing Search Virtual Products Technology Category Search Search Search Search Search Search Description or controlled vocabulary search (single catalog) federated keyword search across multiple catalogs search that uses contextual info and domain knowledge captured in an ontology search that uses contextual info (on demand), retrieves results related by higher-level concepts on the fly harvesting of different content types including higher-level concepts searching for virtual products which may include data/images that have not been acquired or products that do not exist yet; includes getting status of sensors and timeframes, etc. Entry TRL in 2010 3 3 3 2 2 3 Intermediate TRL 5 5 5 3 4 5
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