[saga-rg] Re: MetaData/Advert Service type stuff in SAGA?

[Andre Merzky]

One idea which came up was to extend the attribute interface
to provide persistency - that would probbaly come into the
scope of an advert service.  But that idea was not fleshed
out...

Andre.


PS.: I Cc to the saga list if you don't mind?  


Quoting [Tom Goodale] (Jun 07 2005):
> Date:    Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:09:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From:    Tom Goodale <goodale at cct.lsu.edu>
> To:      Jon MacLaren <maclaren at cct.lsu.edu>
> Cc:      Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>
> Subject: Re: MetaData/Advert Service type stuff in SAGA?
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> no, you're not missing anything.  This was one of the areas which the 
> design team didn't cover - I'd have to check the notes as to how high up 
> the priority list it came.
> 
> If there's enough demand, it might might be in the next round...
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jon MacLaren wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andre, Tom,
>> 
>> Something that came out of the Grid meeting the other week was that it'd 
>> be good to read the draft SAGA API and make comments regarding 
>> requirements for searching on meta-data (like in the advert service 
>> adaptor).
>> 
>> Just searching quickly through the spec, there doesn't seem to be anything 
>> like a meta-data service API.  I note that there's a proposed search/find 
>> on the LogicalDirectory API, but I'm thinking about an external service 
>> holding meta-data about files, such as the date it was generated, etc., 
>> etc.
>> 
>> I just wanted to check with you guys that I wasn't missing something.  Am 
>> I?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jon.
>>



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