[gin-info] Possible list of subset data for info interop

[Jennifer M. Schopf]

but guys, we're NOT defining a schema

we're saying -here's a minimal set of attributes which we think most sites 
are already gathering that we should communicate out

  -j


At 18:02 01/03/2006, Oxana Smirnova wrote:
>... right, that's another point I forgot to mention in my previous mail:
>
>- it would be very useful to see the inter-dependencies and/or relations 
>of the objects/classes, like e.g. an LDAP DIT.
>
>So Thomas' sketches are very helpful in getting the overview and 
>idetifying missing or redundant items.
>
>Oxana
>
>Dr. Thomas Soddemann пишет:
>>Jen,
>>well, in order to get a consistent picture of we want as a kind of 
>>minimum requirements for a schema, I think it is by far more easy to use 
>>a structured visualization including dependencies of classes rather than 
>>gathering lists of attributes. You certainly agree, that unstructured 
>>information is almost worthless.
>>Hence, as implementors we should try to advertise our minimum set of 
>>attributes in way which makes sense to everyone. IMHO, that is more than 
>>just gathering lists of attributes. And in your first e-mail message you 
>>have already started to structure your data, which I later tried to visualize.
>>Cheers,
>>Thomas


Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf
Scientist                              eInfrastructure Policy Advisor
Distributed Systems Lab       National eScience Centre and JISC
Argonne National Laboratory  The University of Edinburgh
jms at mcs.anl.gov                 jms at nesc.ac.uk
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~jms