I agree also. I was reading Duane's message to mean "The contract
offer is perhaps a bit more vague and (metadata about the contract
offer) could be part of the (overall) metadata." My interpolations
are in the parentheses. However, I regard the Service Description
Metadata to be the implicit Contract Offer since it defines the basic
service(s) being offered and probably should include a brief
description of the requirements for a contract transaction, e.g. a
url for the wsdl, or for a registry where the wsdl, tmodel, brownie
recipe etc., can be acquired.
Ciao,
Rex
At 1:33 AM -0400 4/25/05, 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:]
>>Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:46 PM
>>To: Duane Nickull; Rex Brooks
>>Cc: Breininger, Kathryn R; Francis McCabe; Gregory A. Kohring; Ken
>>Laskey;
>>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
>>>
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>>
>>
>>--
>>Rex Brooks
>>President, CEO
>>Starbourne Communications Design
>>GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
>>Berkeley, CA 94702
>>Tel: 510-849-2309
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