On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, John Roberts wrote:
> (See attached file: Service Description framework DC version.doc)
> Further to the draft agenda circulated earlier this week, please find
> attached a paper on the use of DC for service description.
>
> I would welome discussion on this at Shanghai, but also any other feedback
> or comment (before or after the DC Conference)
John,
in documents like this, I tend to jump straight to the glossary, on the
basis that if the terms being used aren't well defined then I reckon that
I'm going to have trouble understanding the rest of the document.
So I looked at your glossary and I have to confess that I dislike some of
your definitions and I quite like others - I can go into more detail in
another message if you like (but, for example, the collection description
WG, and other work on collection descriptions, has an issue that it needs
to resolve about the relationships between collections, locations and
*services* and I wonder if your 'delivery point' might be helpful in this
respect).
Anyway, I digress... my major question at this stage stems from the fact
the the DCMI Type Vocabulary already contains the term 'Service', defined as
A service is a system that provides one or more functions of value to the
end-user. Examples include: a photocopying service, a banking service, an
authentication service, interlibrary loans, a Z39.50 or Web server.
You have defined 'service' as
a repeatable process that forms a set of interactions, between initiating
and responding parties, that is complete
which, to be blunt, I'm not sure I understand! (What is 'complete'? The
repeatable process or the set of interactions or both?).
So, when you say 'service' do you mean DCMI Type Service, or something
else? I hope the answer is DCMI Type Service, in which case, why have you
redefined it? If you mean something else, then I think it would be
helpful to call it something else in order to prevent confusion.
Andy
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