Abbott said the metadata provisions would include "the usual range of safeguards, warrants", but metadata is collected without a warrant after an agency fills out a form.
Requirements include near real time data collection and processing and to achieve the data while ensuring the traceability (and metadata provisioning) of the data.
The catalog is intended to document all past and current simulation activities (including data provenance); to enable global data location and to facilitate data access, analysis and visualization through uniform provision of metadata.
SGD's efforts to standardize our repository go beyond processing and transforming data files to the use of file formats like GFF3 and bedGraph, its metadata collection practices and provision of file inventories and help documents.
That May, the national-security court issued its first order to the telephone companies to log metadata from phone calls, citing a provision in the Patriot Act that allowed the government to obtain business records deemed to be "relevant" to a counterterrorism investigation.
In this article the authors describe their ongoing work on the provision of interoperable sensor metadata to enable the assessment of observation data sets by potential users.
This should include up-to-date provision of readily accessible metadata.
The standard also includes provisions for specifying sensor metadata, both for existing and new sensors and can thus provide the necessary building blocks for acquiring contextual information about the sensors.
From a technical perspective, ontologies, such as gene ontology (GO, http://geneontology.org/) and EnvO (http://environmentontology.org/), and ontology frameworks, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF, http://www.w3.org/RDF/) and Web Ontology Language (OWL, http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/), go a long way towards enabling the provision of context-independent, widely usable metadata.
introduced a bill that would entirely reauthorize Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the provision that allows the NSA to collect the communications metadata of Americans.
