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Subject: Twiki Unlocking, was: Re: [soa-rm] Architectural Scope of ReferenceModel
Ladies & Gents: When you save a twiki edit, please remember to release the edit lock, which is a checkbox just above the submit button. If you leave a lock on, it is very likely someone bold and impatient like myself will just clobber the lock :-) I think it times out after a period of time like 60 mins...which is often way too long. -Matt On 25-Apr-05, at 1:33 AM, Ken Laskey wrote: > 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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