Entry: 1. Application ready

URI: http://reference.metoffice.gov.uk/DataCategories/data-readiness/Application-ready    

Application-ready data is warrantied: available to be used in products and services aimed at less environmentally expert consumers. It is well described and discoverable – this being oriented towards the consumer perspective of application and use, with managed provenance, wide applicability and a high degree of quality control. Data conforms to common standards and formats for publicly available tools. There is a high degree of supporting documentation and human support available on the use and understanding of the data. Data support is provided by people who are not the producers of the data. Application-ready data consumers are typically people operating products and services for domain specific customers, where Met Office data is sometimes only a portion of the data domain. These operators maybe be the Met Office or external 3rd parties. There is a contractual understanding between the producer and the consumer which is warrantied and requires high degrees of co-ordination. The inherent risks in use of this data is that they may not be properly understood by the consumer and changes may have downstream impacts. Mitigation is to provide clear documentation and support, and to warranty the content so that they can rely upon it and be notified when changes occur to the structure or meaning.

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