Processes

Generally speaking, processes are any computation that produces results from existing structured data. Such results could further constitute input data for other processus, thus building an interesting chain of processes.

Concretly, processes can range from simple search for data that match structured criteria to statistics, including filtering, classification or a search for trends or patterns.

As processes must rely on known and accessible concepts, they used to be dependent from the concrete databases structures they applied to. The Archipelago project aims to allow the UFO researcher to create processes at the meta level, so they apply on a virtual meta model instead of depending on a specific concrete data structure. Depending on a meta model only is no longer a problem as such a model can be kept unchanged while being mapped on different data structures, including other meta models.