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Brian Thomas edited this page Jan 27, 2015 · 2 revisions

Supported Data Types

Related Use case(s)

Description

The format shall support important data types for representing both data and metadata.

Sub-requirements

Requirement 19.1 - String Datatype Support

Encoding support, default to ASCII.

Requirement 19.2 - Scalar Datatype Support

Integer, Float/Double, ...

Requirement 19.2 - Vector Datatype Support

Requirement 19.3 - Complex Number Datatype Support

Requirement 19.4 - Array Datatype Support

Arrays of numbers or strings shall be allowed. Multidimensional arrays, and vector arrays shall be allowed.

Requirement 19.5 - Collection/Container/Group Datatype Support

Sequences (ordered Lists), Sets, Collections/Groups (unordered Lists)

Requirement 19.6 - Object Datatype Support

The format shall support representing information as an instance of an object class. An example of this are statistical errors.