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Namespace

In computer languages, the context in which a term can have only a single meaning. For example, two files may not have the same name within a directory. In this case, the directory forms the namespace for the files.

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where each new term is assigned a single namespace that is denoted by its subscript, the left side of a description is a name, and the right side is an expression that refers to other term descriptions in the ontology.

Ontology reengineering: a case study from the automotive industry

The 360 terms overlapping the all_list and query_list in the Venn diagram (Figure 2) represent terms from gene products that are annotated with the query term but have other terms in the Biological Process namespace that are not either a parent or a child of the query.

GOLink: finding cooccurring terms across gene ontology namespaces

OpenStorage solutions provider Nexenta Systems announced on Tuesday Namespace Cluster, which allows users to connect thousands of nodes to work together as one file system.

Nexenta unveils Namespace Cluster and NexentaStor 3.1

This directive results in the UnitsML schema being brought into the host schema within the host schema namespace. The element <include> brings in definitions and declarations from the UnitsML schema into the host schema.

Improving interoperability by incorporating UnitsML into markup languages

At this point of software development the place within the project of the integrated resource representing this XML schema should be known, as well as the namespace for XML files of this type.

Methods of handling XML files for a decision support system framework

Ability to tie multiple storage vendor products under a single virtual namespace

Distributed clustered storage is the future; Philip Crocker, director of emea marketing at Isilon Systems, looks at the growing problems associated with data storage

The end user sees a single namespace, which is connected to Nirvanix's scalable storage nodes behind the scenes.

Nirvanix: storage solutions for growing content

Revolutionary storage technologies have emerged to address file data management challenges, including Global Namespace. The technology allows users to access files without knowing their location, just as they access Web sites without knowing their IP addresses.

Achieving new levels of performance with File Area Network: as the number of file servers and amount of file-based data continue to grow across today's enterprises, organisations face new challenges in managing their data in the most cost-effective, efficient manner possible. The File Area Network (FAN) concept promises to streamline the management of file-based data

File virtualization also must recognize stub files and offer global namespace functionality at the granular file level.

File virtualization: over 1 billion served

The Panasas storage solution delivers scalable capacity and bandwidth within a single global namespace, and additional storage shelves can be added to meet both existing and future storage performance requirements.