Re: ADMS spec document update

On 19/10/12 04:23, Stasinos Konstantopoulos wrote:

> Going back to measuring up changes, and given the above, I think that:
>   - An "asset translation" is a bigger change and results in a related
> (but distinct) asset. A linguistic translation hardly ever happens,
> but a conceptual translation might, see immediatelly below.
>   - An alternative representation is a re-distribution of the same
> asset instance; unless the target representation does not support all
> the features of the source representation used by the asset, in which
> case we need an "asset translation" into a similar but distinct asset
> that uses the target representation.

I have some sympathy with that and I think that is indeed how ADMS means 
it, representation is just a distribution issue.

The problem was/is that intuitively to me the term "Representation 
Technique" would encompass a choice of, for example, rendering a 
semantic asset in OWL or XSD instead of UML. Not simply serializing some 
OWL to Turtle instead of to RDF/XML. That is more than a change of 
distribution.

I'm working with various groups (both government and UN related) who 
want to support such a representation choice in asset registries and 
hence might look for that capability in ADMS before deciding whether to 
adopt it.

Dave

Received on Friday, 19 October 2012 09:53:52 UTC