I don't have as much a problem as some with using the driving use case in the name. I believe in calling a spade a bloody shovel [OED], even if shovels can be used for other things.
If I step way, way, back and imagine that the particular protocol we are specifying here catches like wildfire in the open web (think Atom or OAuth), the question I ask is what name would we like it to be known by. Something that the world can latch onto, and have a chance of keeping it straight in their minds amid myriad other Internal protocols. I believe the main reason that apps will be signing up to be providers is that they are sitting on some data resources that they would like to expose in an RDF format so that other apps would be able to build queryable indexes from. Any old app can expose resources with RDF representations without supporting this new protocol. So the RDF by itself is not sufficient. And this protocol says nothing about the indexes that may get built. Crucially, this protocol is about exposing information in RDF form in a way that support someone else to build and maintain an RDF-based index. And its not that interesting if the data is static - you'd have no need of a change log. So being a dynamic source also seems important (#1-#5 all touch on this aspect. So how about the "Active RDF Index Source" protocol. And that when we talk about a OSLC domain service provider, we could talk about what it would mean for them to support the "Active RDF Index Source Profile", which would entail implementing the provider role of the Active RDF Index Source protocol, and providing specified enties in OSLC service, service provider, and service provider catalogs that make its Active RDF Index Sources discoverable. Regards, Jim [OED] See entry in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_call_a_spade_a_spade From: Frank Budinsky/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA To: oslc-core <[email protected]> Date: 03/24/2011 11:34 AM Subject: [oslc-core] Better name for OSLC indexing profile Sent by: [email protected] As discussed in the meeting yesterday, I've been using the term "Indexing Profile" (see http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/IndexingProposals for details) to describe the capabilities that MUST be provided by a service provider to support indexing (e.g., an enumeration of resources, a Change Log, etc). It was pointed out that, although indexing is the primary motivating use case, the profile we're talking about is really more general and should therefore have a more general name. What this profile really provides is the capabilities required by a client that wants to see content and track changes to content of a service provider. Some suggested names for this profile are: 1. Observer Profile 2. Notification Profile 3. Change Log Profile 4. Content Tracking Profile 5. Service Tracking Profile The first 3 seem not to cover the "enumeration of resources" part of the profile (and other things like security, which will also be part of the profile), so my vote so far would be for #4 or #5. Please let me know which of these name you prefer or if you have a better suggestion. Thanks, Frank. [email protected] wrote on 03/23/2011 11:39:32 AM: > [image removed] > > [oslc-core] Continuing Change Log and Baselines discussions > > Dave > > to: > > oslc-core > > 03/23/2011 11:41 AM > > Sent by: > > [email protected] > > We had a good discussion of Change Log issues today, thanks to Frank > for leading, but we did not finish. You can find my notes from the > meeting on the agenda page here: > > http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcCoreMeeting20110323 > > Since we did not finish the discussion, I'd like to schedule a > follow-up meeting next week: > > OSLC Core WG Meeting: Change Log follow-up Meeting > March 30, 2011 - 10AM US/ET > > I would also like to propose that we meet the week after that to > follow up on the Baselines discussion: > > OSLC Core WG Meeting: Baselines follow-up Meeting > April 6, 2011 - 10AM US/ET > > Nick: does April 6 work for you? > > Thanks, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Oslc-Core mailing list > [email protected] > http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-core_open-services.net _______________________________________________ Oslc-Core mailing list [email protected] http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-core_open-services.net
