Mediation and Collation

Mediators are required to tailor (bind) a data source or sources to a process or service.

The service can be as simple as a mapping service, and the mediation as rudimentary as renaming the layers to match the context of a map.

More advanced mediations define the linkages between distributed data sets, how data should be aggregated for analysis or display purposes, which columns to match to a charting service, and so on.

Mediations are stored in ‘Web Context Documents’ or equivalent.