Re: [oslc-core] Motivation and proposal for oslc:archive property

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David Honey <>
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2014-10-01T13:26:45+00:00
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Re: [oslc-core] Motivation and proposal for oslc:archive property
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 Steve K Speicher <>

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 2014-10-01 14:01

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Motivation and proposal for oslc:archive property

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Motivation: 

In typical lifecycle management tools, resources are rarely deleted.  They
instead are marked with such a state as not longer being "active"
or "available", some refer to this state as being "archived".
 By having a uniform way to express whether a resource is in this
state or not, allows for a consistent way to build queries and solutions
that federate information from various tools.

Proposal: 

The term for being archived would be

       http://open-services.net/ns/core#archived

and it would take a boolean value. If this property is absent then the
resource is not archived. 

This has a semantically different meaning than existing oslc:hidden [1],
which indicates a hint as to whether the resource or property should be
included in a UI.  oslc:archived would be used to express the state
of a resource, an application may or may not decide to hide these in the
UI. 

Timeframe: 

I suggest this be included in Core 3 common vocabulary.

[1]: http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OSLCCoreSpecAppendixA#oslc_ResourceShape_Resource

Thanks,

Steve Speicher

IBM Rational Software

OSLC - Lifecycle integration inspired by the web -> http://open-services.net

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