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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | B.1 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Quality Checking || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that detects and corrects (or removes) corrupt, inconsistent or inaccurate records from data sets.
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| style="padding: 7px" | B.2 || Data Quality Verification || Functionality that supports manual quality checking.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | B.3 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Identification || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that assigns (global) permanent unique identifiers to data products.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | B.4 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Cataloguing || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that associates a data object with one or more metadata objects which contain data descriptions.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | B.5 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Product Generation || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that processes data against requirement specifications and standardised formats and descriptions. (optional/may be null)
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| style="padding: 7px" | B.6 || Data Versioning || Functionality that assigns a new version to each state change of data, allows to add and update some metadata descriptions for each version, and allows to select, access or delete a version of data.
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| style="padding: 7px" | B.7 || Workflow Enactment || Functionality that interprets predefined process descriptions and control the instantiation of processes and sequencing of activities, adding work items to the work lists and invoking application tools as necessary.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | B.8 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Storage & Preservation || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that deposits (over long-term) the data and metadata or other supplementary data and methods according to specified policies, and makes them accessible on request.
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| style="padding: 7px" | B.9 || Data Replication || Functionality that creates, deletes and maintains the consistency of copies of a data set on multiple storage devices.
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| style="padding: 7px" | B.10 || Replica Synchronisation || Functionality that exports a packet of data from on replica, transports it to one or more other replicas and imports and applies the changes in the packet to an existing replica.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | C.1 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Access Control || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that approves or disapproves of access requests based on specified access policies.
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.2 || Resources Annotation || Functionality that creates, changes or deletes a note that reading any form of text, and associates them with a computational object.
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.3 || ''Data Annotation'' || ''Specialisation of Resource Annotation which allows to associate an annotation to a data object.''
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | C.4 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Metadata Harvesting || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that (regularly) collects metadata (in agreed formats) from different sources.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | C.5 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Resource Registration || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that creates an entry in a resource registry and inserts resource object or a reference to a resource object in specified representations and semantics.
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.6 || ''Metadata Registration'' || ''Specialisation of Resource Registration, which registers a metadata object in a metadata registry.''
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.7 || ''Identifier Registration'' || ''Specialisation of Resource Registration, which registers an identifier object in an identifier registry.''
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.8 || ''Sensor Registration'' || ''Specialisation of Resource Registration which registers a sensor object to a sensor registry.''
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.9 || Data Conversion || Functionality that converts data from one format to another format.
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.10 || Data Compression || Functionality that encodes information using reduced bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | C.11 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Publication || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that provides clean, well-annotated, anonymity-preserving datasets in a suitable format, and by following specified data-publication and sharing policies to make the datasets publicly accessible or to those who agree to certain conditions of use, and to individuals who meet certain professional criteria.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | C.12 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Citation || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that assigns an accurate, consistent and standardised reference to a data object, which can be cited in scientific publications.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | C.13 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Semantic Harmonisation || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that unifies similar data (knowledge) models based on the consensus of collaborative domain experts to achieve better data (knowledge) reuse and semantic interoperability.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | C.14 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Discovery and Access || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that retrieves requested data from a data resource by using suitable search technology.
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| style="padding: 7px" | C.15 || Data Visualisation || Functionality that displays visual representations of data.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | D.1 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Assimilation || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that combines observational data with outputs from a numerical model to produce an optimal estimate of the evolving state of the system.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | D.2 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Analysis || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that inspects, cleans, and transforms data, providing data models which highlight useful information, suggest conclusions, and support decision making.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | D.3 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Mining || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that supports the discovery of patterns in large data sets.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | D.4 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Extraction || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that retrieves data out of (unstructured) data sources, including web pages ,emails, documents, PDFs, scanned text, mainframe reports, and spool files.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | D.5 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Scientific Modelling and Simulation || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that supports the generation of abstract, conceptual, graphical or mathematical models, and to run an instances of those models.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | D.6 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | ''Scientific Workflow Enactment'' || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | ''Functionality provided as a specialisation of Workflow Enactment supporting the composition and execution of computational or data manipulation steps in a scientific application. Important processing results should be recorded for provenance purposes.''
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| style="padding: 7px" | D.7 || Scientific Visualisation || Functionality that graphically illustrates scientific data to enable scientists to understand, illustrate and gain insight from their data. (optional or may be null)
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| style="padding: 7px" | D.8 || Service Naming || Functionality that encapsulates the implemented name policy for service instances in a service network.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | D.9 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Data Processing Control || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that initiates calculations and manages the outputs to be returned to the client.
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| style="padding: 7px; background-color:#ffebe5;" | E.2 || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Authorisation || style="background-color:#ffebe5;" | Functionality that specifies access rights to resources.
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| style="padding: 7px" | E.3 || Accounting || Functionality that measures the resources a user consumes during access for the purpose of capacity and trend analysis, and cost allocation.
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| style="padding: 7px" | E.4 || ''User Registration'' || ''Specialisation of Resource Registration which registers a user to a user registry.''
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| style="padding: 7px" | E.6 || Interactive Visualisation || Functionality that enables users to control of some aspects of the visual representations of information.
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