Environmental Data Challenges
Regardless of what format(s) or product(s) are utilized, users need to represent all of their environmental data in a unified manner such that changes, updates, modifications, or additions (to systems or sub-systems) can be handled in an efficient and methodical manner
Some critical issues are:
- How individual data items (objects) relate to each other
- How new objects/capabilities/features can be added without fundamentally changing the underlying schema
- How formats will be isolated from object-level representations or interfaces