looking for reference, etc pseudo-image kit idea

["Brooks, Rupert" <Rupert.Brooks@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca>]

Hi,

I hope this is an appropriate question for this list, my apologies if it is
not.

Please include me on replies as I am not a list subscriber.

I am looking for some reference or technical or academic discussion of the
idea behind the Debian CD image pseudoimage kit.  This idea - that a data
product is built on the fly from various distributed sources - is a good one
and has a wide application.  Right now, I would like to apply it to the
construction of Geospatial datasets.

Although I have seen it in various forms, particularly in the open software
movement, I have not seen a formal title or reference for it.   Undoubtedly
due to my ignorance - could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks
Rupert B.
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