Glossary
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An action, information product, or service (including consultancy), which makes use of one or more DestinE Digital Twin services or output as an input. |
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Artificial Intelligence is the capacity of an algorithm to assimilate information to perform tasks that are characteristic of human intelligence, such as recognizing objects and sounds, contextualizing language, learning from the environment, and problem solving. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0912-1) |
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Notification service. In DestinE used primarily to notify users when Digital Twin data are available. May be used to trigger user-defined workflows in an automated fashion. Aviso is openly available at https://github.com/ecmwf/aviso |
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A cloud-ready application is a software program that has been designed and developed to run on a cloud computing infrastructure. |
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Coordinated definition and implementation of a DestinE technical capability, use case, application or service between individual or all of the DestinE Entrusted Entities, users and contractors. |
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A natural or legal person with whom a procurement contract has been signed. |
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Data Adaptors are the core elements of the software stack of a Data Bridge, which build the Harmonised Data Access. The adaptors must be specifically configured to the source data, services and infrastructure, taking into account the respective APIs or other access methods, user authentication, data structure, etc. |
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A Data Bridge is part of the DestinE Data Lake and provides an interface to the DestinE DT data. Bridges consist of:
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Data Holding denotes external to DestinE infrastructures or services, which provide data of relevance for DestinE. |
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Part of Data Lake that contains and provides access to structured data, ready to be used in the frame of a Digital Twin, and/or being output from a Digital Twin referenced, and available for user retrieval. |
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Institutions or individuals using decision support tools that build on output of the DT or output of downstream applications of DestinE Users. This category also includes institutions or individuals who rely on advice drawing on DestinE output, e.g. ministries or administrations at local level. |
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Agreements between the European Union and ECMWF, ESA and EUMETSAT on the implementation of the DestinE initiative under the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union as amended in 2023. |
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Earth-system monitoring and prediction system output as provided by the DestinE DT, as well as impact relevant applications and services data provisioned via the Data Lake. |