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Appendix E: Glossary
Pages 51-54

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... FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP) DOWNLOAD A user is provided access to data stored on the data center computers, allowing copying of files.
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... RANDOM ACCESS To access individual data directly, as on a CD, computer disk, or computer memory, rather than scanning through data to find individual data, as on a tape. SCHEMA A definition of the structures and representation types of a collection of data.
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... APPENDIX E 53 XML Schema The language in which XML schemes can be defined. Also used to denote the self-descnbing XML schema that defines all possible XML schemes, including itself.
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Key Terms

  • individual data
  • data stream
  • xml documents
  • data usage
  • data stored

  • data statistics
  • allowing copying
  • specific conditions
  • schema adhere
  • representation types

  • provided access
  • storage capacity
  • computer disk
  • billion bytes
  • data center

  • computer storage
  • access individual
  • computer memory
  • files electronically
  • data directly

  • collection defined
  • center computers
  • data distribution
  • data files
  • data contained

  • subsequently delivered
  • source code
  • reused structures
  • special effort
  • thousand gigabytes


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