Re: [egov-registry] Registering schema components

["Carl Mattocks" <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>]

Paul et al :

Given that the CoreComponent (CCTS) work has allowed the RegRep team to
understand that support for 'serialization' of metadata is an essential
capability .....

IMHO the RegRep should allow 'the component to into the repository' and
the registry should contain the derived metadata.
Assuming that, the RegRep interface will allow the 'user' (human or their
agent) to exploit both the metadata (at all levels of granularity) and the
artifact (as-in its original form).


carl

<quote who="Paul Spencer">
> We have stated two requirements in this area.
>
> The first is that we can register artefacts such as XML Schema elements,
> attributes and data types (we will need to decide exactly which artefacts
> we
> can register: what about groups etc?).
>
> The second is that we can register metadata which we can later serialize
> as
> XML Schema or other formats. I would expect this to be based on the CCTS
> metadata, but we have not yet specified this.
>
> How do we plan to use these? If information is entered into the registry
> as
> metadata and later serialized as XML Schema, that is not problem. But we
> know that, in Government, people don't like their schemas being messed
> with.
> I don't think that, if people submit a schema component, we could convert
> it
> to metadata and throw away the component. We therefore have two types of
> artefact - schema components and metadata from which we can derive
> components.
>
> One possibility is always to derive metadata from a submitted schema
> component and register this. The component goes into the repository. This
> means that the registry can be searched in a way that treats submitted
> components equivalently to the same information that has been submitted
> just
> as metadata. If someone requests a component as XML Schema, we can see if
> one is stored. If it is, we use it. If it isn't, we create it from
> metadata.
>
> Any views? Carl? Nikola? Duane? Farrukh? Ann? Others?
>
> Regards
>
> Paul Spencer
> Director
> Boynings Consulting Ltd
> http://www.boynings.co.uk
>
>


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