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Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Architectural Scope of Reference Model
I agree completely. Sorry I haven't read the rest of this thread and this just caught my eye. I was going to add a definition of metadata to the glossary last week but it seemed to be locked when I tried. I'll give it another try when I can. Ken At 08:05 PM 4/24/2005, Breininger, Kathryn R wrote: > From work I have done in the realm of metadata, classification, >categorization, etc., The purpose of metadata is to provide a >description or information about something; in this case it is not the >contract, and not the offer. There may be metadata that describes the >offer; there may also be a separate set of metadata that describes the >contract. In both cases, metadata is still providing information about >the data (definition of metadata = data *about* data) e.g., contract, >offer, service, schema, brownie recipe, etc. etc. are all things that >may be described by metadata. > > >Kathryn Breininger >Boeing Library Services >425-965-0182 phone > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] >Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:46 PM >To: Duane Nickull; Rex Brooks >Cc: Breininger, Kathryn R; Francis McCabe; Gregory A. Kohring; Ken >Laskey; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org >Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Architectural Scope of Reference Model > > >That would work. Vague in this sense means non-specific as to the >service, which is, I believe the level of abstraction we are aiming >to maintain, yes? > >Ciao, >Rex > >At 8:41 PM -0700 4/21/05, Duane Nickull wrote: > >Rex Brooks wrote: > > > >>I think one can have metadata about a contract or contracts as a > >>class, but I don't think contracts are metadata in themselves. > > > >I had originally shared this view. That is why the contract was > >separate from the "service Description" in our posiion paper. The > >contract offer is perhaps a bit more vague and could be part of the > >metadata. > > > >Perhaps the Lawyer amongst us can give us his PoV (Jamie????) > > > >Duane > > > >-- > >*********** > >Senior Standards Strategist - Adobe Systems, Inc. - > >http://www.adobe.com Vice Chair - UN/CEFACT Bureau Plenary - > >http://www.unece.org/cefact/ Adobe Enterprise Developer Resources - > >http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/developer/main.html > >*********** > > >-- >Rex Brooks >President, CEO >Starbourne Communications Design >GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison >Berkeley, CA 94702 >Tel: 510-849-2309 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- / Ken Laskey \ | MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 | | 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 | \ McLean VA 22102-7508 / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** note: phone number changed 4/15/2005 to 703-983-7934 ***
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