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This section contains notes & ideas (many or all of which relate to each other) about how we can implement these requirements. API requirements should not be expressed here (requirements for API should be documented in the Requirements section), but this section may be of interest to users in that how the system is implemented will have some effect on how it can be used, and may impose limitations that had not been considered in Requirements.
Composite Dataset Types
- Type 1: All the data for a single dataset is all the data in a single (FITS) file.
- Type 2: Many different datasets have data in a single (FITS) file.
- Type 3: A single dataset has data in many different (FITS) files.
Composite Dataset Type Definition
To indicate that a dataset should be serialized/deserialized from components, the policy's dataset definition has a new keyword `composite`.
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