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Publications

Book Chapters

  1. Peter Baumann: Raster Databases. In: L. Rivero et al (eds.): Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, Ideas Publishing, 2005
  2. Peter Baumann: Modellierung und Analyse von 3D-Rasterdaten in Geodatenbanken. In: V. Coors, A. Zipf (eds.): 3D-Geoinformationssysteme, Hüthig Verlag, 2005
  3. Peter Baumann: Web-gestützte Analysetechniken für mehrdimensionale Geo-Rasterdatenbanken. In: V. Coors, A. Zipf (eds.): 3D-Geoinformationssysteme, Hüthig Verlag, 2005
  4. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler, Jürgen Redmer, Max Ungerer: Datenbanken für Graphik - Graphik für Datenbanken. In: Jose Luis Encarnação, Herbert Kuhlmann (eds.): Graphik in Industrie und Technik, Springer 1988, pp. 321 - 342
  5. Thomas Batz, Peter Baumann, Klaus-Dieter Höft, Dagmar Köhler, Detlef Krömker, Hans-Peter Subel: PRODAT - Das PROSYT-Datenbanksystem. In: Detlef Krömker, P. Steusloff, Hans-Peter Subel (ed.): PRODIA und PRODAT, Dialog- und Datenbankschnittstellen für den Systementwurf, Springer ZGDV-Reihe Beiträge zur Graphischen Datenverarbeitung, 1988

Tutorials

At the following events I have given a tutorial on raster databases, with length and emphasis adjusted to the target audience.

Peer Reviewed Papers

Multidimensional Databases

  1. Peter Baumann: Zur Standardisierung von Geo-Rasterdiensten - Interoperable Mehrwertdienste für große Rasterarchive. GIS 7/2007, pp. 6 - 12.
  2. Peter Baumann: Large-Scale Raster Services: A Case for Databases. Invited keynote, 3rd Intl Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems (CoMoGIS), Tucson, USA, 6 - 9 November 2006. In: John Roddick et al (eds): Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice, 2006, pp. 75 - 84.
  3. Peter Baumann, Chen Sheng-Bo: Standards-Based Raster Services for Integrated Earth Information Access. 20th CODATA Conference, Beijing, 23-25 October 2006.
  4. Peter Baumann: Towards a Standard for Interoperable Earth System Raster Services. 23rd Intl. FIG Congress, Munich, Germany, 8 - 13 October 2006. (PDF, 220 kB)
  5. Peter Baumann, Angela Schäfer, Vikram Unnithan: (short presentation and poster). 2nd Workshop SPP 1144, Etelsen, 28-30 June 2005.
  6. Angela Schäfer, Vikram Unnithan, Michael Diepenbroek and Peter Baumann: IRCCM - A New Integrated Data Management Approach. Invited contribution to session "Earth System Science Data Access, Distribution and Use for Education and Research", European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2005, Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005.
  7. Peter Baumann: Rasterdatenbanken am Beispiel rasdaman. Datenbank-Spektrum 10/2004, pp. 30 - 37.
  8. Peter Baumann: Large-Scale, Standards-Based Earth Observation Imagery and Web Mapping Services (system demonstration). Proc 29th VLDB, Berlin, Germany, September 9 - 12, 2003. (PDF, 2 MB)
  9. Peter Baumann: Integrierte Meß- und Bilddatenhaltung für Umweltdatenbanken. Umweltdatenbanken 2003 (Workshop AK Umweltdatenbanken, GI-Fachgruppe 4.6.1 "Informatik im Umweltschutz"), May 19-20, 2003, Berlin. (PDF, 550 kB)
  10. Peter Baumann, Erhard Diedrich, Clemens Glock, Michael Lautenschlager, Frank Toussaint: Large-Scale Multidimensional Coverage Databases. 26th GITA Annual Conference, San Antonio, USA, March 2 - 5, 2003. (PDF, 1.1 MB)
  11. Andrei Pisarev, Ekaterina Poustelnikova, Maria Samsonova, Peter Baumann: Mooshka: a system for the management of multidimensional gene expression data in situ. Information Systems 28 (2003) 269-285
  12. Peter Baumann, Maximilian Höfner, Walter Schatz: Querying Large Geo Image Databases: A Case Study. IV Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics - GeoInfo 2002, December 5-6 2002, Caxambu, Brazil. (PDF, 1.6 MB)
  13. Bernd Reiner, Karl Hahn, Gabriele Höfling, Peter Baumann: Hierarchical Storage Support and Management for Large-Scale Multidimensional Array Database Management Systems. 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), September 2-6, 2002, Aix en Provence, France (PDF, 500 kB)
  14. Karl Hahn, Bernd Reiner, Gabriele Höfling, Peter Baumann: Parallel Query Support for Multidimensional Data: Inter-object Parallelism. 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), September 2-6, 2002, Aix en Provence, France (PDF, 111 kB)
  15. Peter Baumann: Web-enabled Raster GIS Services for Large Image and Map Databases. Special Track on "Image-Based Geospatial Databases", 5th Int'l Workshop on Query Processing and Multimedia Issues in Distributed Systems (QPMIDS'2001), September 3-4, 2001, Munich, Germany. (PDF, 350 kB)
  16. Peter Baumann: Grid Services for Fast Retrieval on Large Multidimensional Databases. GridDemo: Live demonstrations of European and US Grid technology. Workshop at HPCN Europe 2001, Amsterdam, June 25-27, 2001. (PDF, 132 kB)
  17. Per Roland, Gert Svensson, Tony Lindeberg, Tore Risch, Peter Baumann, Andreas Dehmel, Jesper Frederiksson, Hjörleifer Halldorson, Lars Forsberg, Jeremy Young, Karl Zilles: A database generator for human brain imaging. Trends in Neurosciences 24 (10) (2001) pp. 562-564.
  18. Peter Baumann: Overcoming the Data Delivery Bottleneck in Supercomputing. 3rd International Workshop on Next Generation Climate Models for Advanced High Performance Computing Facilities, March 28-30, 2001, Tokyo, Japan. (PDF, 29 kB)
  19. Andreas Dehmel, Peter Baumann: Visualizing Multidimensional Raster Data with rView. International Workshop on Interacting with Databases (IDA2000), DEXA workshop, September 6-8, 2000, Greenwich, UK (PDF, 660 kB)
  20. Peter Baumann, Andreas Dehmel, Maximilian Höfner, Norbert Widmann: Exploring Sensor and Simulation Raw Data with RasDaMan (system demonstration). Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2000, March 27-31, 2000, Konstanz, Germany (zipped PDF, 21 kB)
  21. Peter Baumann, Andreas Dehmel, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: Spatio-Temporal Retrieval with RasDaMan (system demonstration). Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 1999, September 7-10, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Morgan Kaufmann 1999, pp. 746-749. (PDF, 75 kB; DiSC slide presentation)
  22. Norbert Widmann, Peter Baumann: Performance Evaluation of Multidimensional Array Storage Techniques in Databases, Proceedings of the 1999 International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, Montreal, Canada, August 1999 (zipped PDF, 103 kB)
  23. Peter Baumann: A Database Array Algebra for Spatio-Temporal Data and Beyond. The Fourth International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS '99), July 5-7, 1999, Zikhron Yaakov, Israel, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 1649, Springer Verlag, pp. 76 - 93. (zipped PDF, 93 kB)
  24. Peter Baumann, Andreas Dehmel, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: Cross-Dimensional Sensor Data Management. Fourth International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition/21st Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Canada, 21-24 June 1999. (PDF, 73 kB)
  25. Paula Furtado, Peter Baumann: Storage of Multidimensional Arrays based on Arbitrary Tiling. ICDE'99, March 23-26, 1999, Sydney, Australia, pp. 328-336.
  26. Norbert Widmann, Peter Baumann: Efficient Execution of Operations in a DBMS for Multidimensional Arrays, Proceedings of the SSDBM 98, Capri, Italy, July 1998 (PDF, 79 kB)
  27. Peter Baumann, Andreas Dehmel, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan. Proceedings ACM SIGMOD'98, Seattle, Washington, USA. June 1998. (zipped PDF, 49 kB)
  28. Paulo Marques, Paula Furtado, P. Baumann: An Efficient Strategy for Tiling Multidimensional OLAP Data Cubes. Proc. Workshop on Data Mining and Data Warehousing, 28. GI-Jahrestagung Informatik zwischen Bild und Sprache, Magdeburg, Germany, September 1998. (zipped PDF, 75 kB)
  29. Norbert Widmann, Peter Baumann: Towards Comprehensive Database Support for Geoscientific Raster Data. Proc. ACM-GIS'97, Las Vegas/USA, November 1997 (zipped PDF, 80 kB)
  30. Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann, Peter Zoller, Peter Baumann: Object-Oriented Design of a Database Engine for Multidimensional Discrete Data. Proc. OOIS'97, Brisbane/ Australia, November 1997 (zipped PDF, 172 kB)
  31. Peter Baumann, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System. Proc. VLDB'97, Athens/Greece, August 25 - 29, 1997, pp. 548-552 (zipped PDF, 126 kB)
  32. Peter Baumann, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: Anfrageformulierung und Ablage dimensionsbehafteter Daten in RasDaMan (Kurzbeitrag). Proc. GI-Fachtagung BTW'97, Ulm/Germany, March 5 - 7, 1997, pp. 261-268 (PDF, 522 kB)
  33. Peter Baumann, Pedro Vivas, Ana Martinez: RasDaMan: Raster Data Management in Databases. AERFAI. VII SNRFAI Symposium (Simposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes), Centre de Visio per Computador, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, April 21 - 25, 1997 (zipped PDF, 46 kB)
  34. Peter Baumann, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: The RasDaMan Approach to Multidimensional Database Management. Proc. 12th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'97), San Jose/USA, February 28 - March 2,1997, pp. 166-173 (zipped PDF, 259 kB)
  35. Roland Ritsch, Peter Baumann: RasDaMan - Innovative PACS Technology. (Poster) Proc. 10th International Symposium and Exhibition of Computer Assisted Radiology (CAR'96), Paris/France, June 26 - 29, 1996
  36. Peter Baumann: Liberating Images from Data Exchange Formats: Data Independence for Raster Data! Proc. Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems, Philadelphia/USA, October 23 - 26, 1995, SPIE proceedings vol. 2606, pp. 401-414
  37. Peter Baumann: Reducing Sensor Data Transfer Rates through Enhanced DBMS Raster Service. Proc. Information Technology and its Use for Environmental Monitoring and Protection, Springer 1995
  38. Peter Baumann: On the Management of Multidimensional Discrete Data. VLDB Journal 4(3)1994, Special Issue on Spatial Database Systems, pp. 401-444
  39. Peter Baumann, Paula Furtado: A Novel Approach to the Management of Multidimensional Discrete Data in PACS (Kurzbeitrag). Proc. Computer Assisted Radiology (CAR'93), Berlin, June 24 - 26, 1993, Springer 1993, pp. 272-277
  40. Peter Baumann: Database Support for Multidimensional Discrete Data. Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD '93), LNCS 692, Springer 1993, pp. 191-206
  41. Paula Furtado, Peter Baumann: Management of Multidimensional Volumetric Data in Databases. (in Portuguese) Proc. 5o Encontro Portugujs de Computagco Grafica", Aveiro/Portugal, February 3 - 5, 1993, pp. 241-252
  42. Peter Baumann: Language Support for Raster Image Manipulation in Databases. Proc. Int. Workshop on Graphics Modeling, Visualization in Science & Technology, Darmstadt/Germany, April 13 - 14, 1992

    Constraint Modelling

  43. Jian Zhou, Peter Baumann: Evaluation of Complex Cardinality Constraints. Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Entity-Relationship Approach, Karlsruhe/Germany, October 1992, LNCS 645, Springer 1992, pp. 24-40
  44. Peter Baumann: Valences: A New Relationship Concept for the Entity-Relationship Model. Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Entity-Relationship Approach, Toronto/Canada, October 1989, North-Holland 1990, pp. 218-231

    Active Objects

  45. Peter Baumann: Die Spezifikation informationsverarbeitender Systeme mit Abstrakten Objekttypen. Proc. BTW '91, Kaiserslautern/Germany, March 1991, IFB 270, Springer 1991, pp. 379-387 (also in: Selected Readings in Computer Graphics, ZGDV Darmstadt 1991, pp. 244-253)

    Databases & Graphics

  46. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler, Jochem Poller: Using Database Techniques for Data Modelling in Computer Graphics. Computer Standards & Interfaces, Vol 9, 1989, pp. 113-125
  47. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler: Zentrale Aspekte der Datenmodellierung in einem Daten­bank­system für graphische Anwendungen. Proc. Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken, Volkse, May 1989, Informatik-Bericht Nr. 89-02, Technische Universität Braunschweig
  48. Dagmar Köhler, Thomas Batz, Peter Baumann: Modellierung und Darstellung graphischer Daten­struk­turen in PRODAT. Proc. GI-Fachgespräch Non-Standard Datenbanken für Anwen­dun­gen der Gra­phi­schen Datenverarbeitung, Dortmund, March 21 - 22, 1988, IFB 171, Springer 1988, pp. 37-55

    Formal Foundations of Computer Graphics

  49. Peter Baumann: A Formal Specification of a Boundary Representation. Proc. Eurographics'88, Nizza/Frankreich, September 12 - 16, 1988, Elsevier Science Publishers 1988, pp. 141-154

    Engineering Databases

  50. Peter Baumann, Uwe Jasnoch, Dagmar Köhler, Jian Zhou: Communicating EDIF Objects: A Standard-Based Approach. Proc. Electronic Design Automation Frameworks, Charlotteville, USA, November 1990, North Holland 1991, pp. 229-238
  51. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler, Gabi Englert: Das Texturarchiv als Beispiel für den Einsatz von nichtkonventionellen Datenbanktechniken. Proc. Intelligente integrierte Informationssysteme, Pila/Polen, September 24 - 27, 1990, pp. 156-175
  52. Dagmar Köhler, Thomas Batz, Peter Baumann: A Data Model Supporting System Engineering. Proc. 12th Int. COMPSAC, Chicago/USA, October 5 - 7, 1988
  53. Dagmar Köhler, Peter Baumann: Database Schema Design for CAD/CAM Applications. Proc. IFIP TC-5 Conf. on CAD/CAM Technology Transfer to Latin America, Mexico City/Mexico, August 22 - 26,1988, pp. 125-135
  54. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler: Archiving Versions and Configurations in a Database System for System Engineering Environments. Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Software Version and Configuration Control, Grassau, January 27 - 29, 1988, Teubner 1989, pp. 313-325

    Feature-based Modelling

  55. Peter Baumann, Jivka Ovtcharova: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Object-Oriented Feature Definition. Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on CAD & Computer Graphics, Hangzhou/China, September 1991, International Academic Publishers 1991, pp. 376-381

    E-Commerce

  56. Peter Baumann, Markus Blaschka, Gabi Höfling: An Open Communication & Information Infrastructure for the Textile Supply Chain. Proc. Competing in the Information Society Conference, Genova, June 24 - 26, 1998, pp. 157 - 167.
  57. Peter Baumann, Markus Blaschka, Gabi Höfling, George Kartsounis: TEXconnect: An Open Communication & Information Infrastructure for the Textile Supply Chain. Proc. 2nd International Conference on Teleworking, Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce, Berlin, June 9 - 10, 1998, pp. 75 - 78.
  58. Peter Baumann, Markus Blaschka, Gabi Höfling: TEXconnect: An Open Communication & Information Infrastructure for the Textile Supply Chain. Proc. of EUROMED-NET'98, Special Track on Electronic Commerce on the Internet, Nicosia, March 4 - 7, 1998, pp. 156 - 164. (PDF, 412 kB)

Non-reviewed Papers and Presentations

(recent only)

  1. Intelligent Support for High I/O Requirements of Leading Edge Scientific Codes on High-End Computing Systems - the ESTEDI Project. Sixth European SGI/Cray MPP Workshop, 7-8 September 2000, Manchester, UK (PDF, 70 kB)
  2. Peter Baumann: Large-Scale Scientific Data Management: Some Observations and an Approach. 27th SPEEDUP Workshop Scientific Data Management and Understanding in Computational Science , March 16-17, 2000, Lugano, Switzerland.
  3. Peter Baumann: Array Databases Meet Supercomputing Data - the ESTEDI Project. Workshop on High Performance Object Databases (HiPOD2000), July 20-21, 2000, Cardiff, UK.
  4. Peter Baumann: Non-Standard-Anwendungen des Data Warehousing: Modellierung und Umsetzung. MSS-2000 (Modellierungsansätze zum Aufbau von Data Warehouse-Anwendungen), March 22 - 23, 2000, Bochum, Germany. (htmlified slides)

Technical Reports

  1. Peter Baumann, Georgi Chulkov: Web Coverage Processing Service Implementation Specification. Jacobs University Technical Report #9, July 2007 (PDF)
  2. Angelica Garcia-Gutierrez, Peter Baumann: Modeling Fundamental Geo-Raster Operations with Array Algebra. Jacobs University Technical Report #7, June 2007 (PDF)
  3. Peter Baumann, Christian Neuß: Netzdienst für Bilddatenbanken - Abschlußbericht zur Konzeptionsphase. Technischer Bericht FIGD-92i011, FhG-IGD Darmstadt 1992
  4. Jian Zhou, Peter Baumann: Specification and Evaluation of Complex Cardinality Constraints. Technischer Bericht FIGD-92i008, FhG-IGD Darmstadt 1991
  5. Dagmar Köhler, Peter Baumann, Uwe Jasnoch, Max Ungerer, Jian Zhou: Fernzugriff auf Entwurfsdatenbanken - Abschlußbericht. Technischer Bericht FAGD-91i005, FhG-AGD Darmstadt 1991
  6. Peter Baumann, et al.: Computergestützte 3D-Visualisierung von Bekleidung an Figurinen. Technischer Bericht FAGD-91i001, FhG-AGD Darmstadt 1991
  7. Peter Baumann: Structure Modeling Concepts in Databases. Proc. of a BERKOM-Workshop in Annelsbach July 1990, Oldenbourg Verlag 1991, pp. 81-109 (auch verfügbar als GMD-Bericht Nr. 196, GMD St. Augustin)
  8. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler: Das ERDA-Datenmodell. Workshop-Bericht FAGD-90i015, FhG-AGD Darmstadt 1990
  9. Jochem Poller, Peter Baumann, Dierk Ehmke: Referenzmodell der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung II. Technischer Bericht FAGD-89i013, FhG-AGD Darmstadt 1989
  10. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler, Jürgen Redmer, Max Ungerer: Spezifikation von ERDA - Fernzugriff auf Datenbanken in verteilten Ingenieursanwendungen. Technischer Bericht FAGD-89i010, FhG-AGD Darmstadt 1989
  11. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler: PRODAT - die PROSYT-Datenhaltungskomponente. Technischer Bericht FAGD-89i008, FhG-AGD Darmstadt 1989
  12. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler: APRIL - Another PRODAT ImpLementation. Technischer Bericht FAGD-89i007, FhG-AGD Darmstadt, 1989
  13. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler, Gregor Lux-Mülders, Jochem Poller: Workshop Graphik-Daten­banken. Workshop-Report FAGD-88i012, FhG-AGD Darmstadt 1988
  14. Dagmar Köhler, Peter Baumann, Detlef Krömker, Jürgen Redmer, Max Ungerer: Verteilte Entwurfsdatenbanken - Abschlußbericht. Technischer Bericht FAGD-88i019, FhG-AGD Darm­stadt 1988
  15. Gabi Englert, Georgios Sakas, Peter Baumann et al.: Arbeitsklausur zu Texturmodellierung und -klassifikation. Workshop-Report 88-9, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachgruppe Graphisch-Interaktive Systeme (GRIS) 1988
  16. Peter Baumann, A. Delgado, Dagmar Köhler, Leo Magalhaes, Jürgen Redmer, I. Ricarte, Regina Ruschel, Max Ungerer: First Internal Workshop on New Database Concepts, Workshop-Report 88-12, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachgruppe Graphisch-Interaktive Systeme (GRIS) 1988

Selected further Publications

  1. Peter Baumann: Sorting Terabytes. BYTE, January 1998, pp. 32IS 11-14
  2. Peter Baumann: Die Verwaltung Multidimensionaler Daten - Schwergewichte gehen ins Netz! In: Business Multimedia, FAZ/Gabler Verlag 1997
  3. Peter Baumann: The Object-Oriented Database System APRIL. Computer Graphik Topics - Mitteilungen aus dem Haus der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung 5(1)1993
  4. Peter Baumann: Fernzugriff auf VLSI-Entwurfsdatenbanken. DFN-Mitteilungen, Vol. 28, 1992, pp. 22-23
  5. Peter Baumann: A Description Technique for the Computer Graphics Reference Model. ISO/IEC SC24/WG1 RM/4, July 1990
  6. Dagmar Köhler, Peter Baumann: Datenbanksysteme für Animation und Imaging. Computer Graphik Topics - Mitteilungen aus dem Haus der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung 2(4)1990, pp. 8-9
  7. Peter Baumann, Dagmar Köhler, Jürgen Redmer, Max Ungerer: Datenbanken für Graphik - Graphik für Datenbanken. In: Jose Luis Encarnacao, Herbert Kuhlmann (eds.): Graphik in Industrie und Technik, Springer 1988, pp. 321-342
  8. Thomas Batz, Peter Baumann, Klaus-Dieter Höft, Dagmar Köhler, Detlef Krömker, Hans-Peter Subel: PRODAT - Das PROSYT-Datenbanksystem. In: Detlef Krömker, P. Steusloff, Hans-Peter Subel (ed.): PRODIA und PRODAT, Dialog- und Datenbankschnittstellen für den Systementwurf, Springer ZGDV-Reihe Beiträge zur Graphischen Datenverarbeitung 1988
  9. H.-J. Artz, H. Bauer, Peter Baumann et al.: Optische Speicherplattensysteme - Teil 2: Übersicht über die Auswahl von Einzelkomponenten und Gesamtsystemen. AWV (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für wirtschaftliche Verwaltung e.V., Fachreferat Mikrofilm/Optische Informationssysteme), Eigen­verlag, Eschborn 1989

PhD Thesis

Ein konzeptuelles Informationsmodell für Visualisierungsdatenbanken (A conceptual information model for visualization databases)
Dissertation at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, February 1993.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Encarnacao, TH Darmstadt.
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alejandro Buchmann, TH Darmstadt.
ISBN 3-86111-654-5, Verlag Dr. Shaker, Aachen, Germany.
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