The articles describe and define Discovery Data Service functionality and technology; the architecture that underpins the data service software, the components that make up the service, the testing and assurance processes, and the resources, technologies, and software that are used to host, develop, and support the service.

Services

These articles describe things associated with the various services provided by the Discovery data service. Use these articles to find out about functionality and technical implementations such as the information model, the various interfaces to the service, and the technical means of publishing data to Discovery or accessing data via Discovery. Types of services are described below

Information model services

These articles provide information about the services that operate using the Discovery Common Information Model, which include the ontologies and data models as well as the underlying languages that are used to represent them.