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

[Dr. Thomas Soddemann]

Hi Jen,

Jennifer M. Schopf wrote:
> Thomas-
>
>    the goal of this group is low hanging fruit. to come up with a 
> schema we all agree on is NOT low hanging fruit - it's months of work. 
> This is not the place for that work. The GLUE schema list is likely to 
> begin discussions of extensions soon, the OGSA-WG has said they'll 
> look at GLUE schema/CIM mixes soon.  If you want to evaluate those 
> topics, i suggest you check out these other efforts.
>
> The goal of this group was low hanging fruit, minimal capability, 
> using existing work.
>
I do not think that we disagree on this or have in the past.

> The list, as you show it, is indeed worthless. However, if every 
> resource advertises out it's own list grouped together it gives us the 
> basic data we need to understand what a resource might look like in 
> order to make extremely preliminary resource selection decisions. Look 
> at what we've done for TG as an example, i think. It's minimal, but 
> it's useful. A sample web page is here 
> <http://snipurl.com/j24r>http<http://snipurl.com/j24r>://snipurl.com/j24r
>
That's essentially the Glue schema plus a naming convention, isn't it?

Thomas

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