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

[Erwin Laure]

Absolutely! It is always tempting in these efforts to start defining new 
things because obviously existing solutions have their deficiencies. But 
that's not the point for GIN. As Jen said, we should try to come up with 
a minimal set and try to build translators between different 
representations (Glue/CIM more specifically). That's all GIN should be 
doing.

Hopefully, this work will lead to some insights that we can feed into 
standardization processes, or specifically for the information system, 
into glue2, but we are not defining it.

Cheers,

-- Erwin

Jennifer M. Schopf wrote:
> 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
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