Comment on Action vocabulary

Group:

We've been pointed at an inconsistency of the Actions read/writeTo/appendTo

-          read is about reading any data from an asset

-          writeTo is about adding data to an asset

-          appendTo is about appending data to an asset - and is a narrower
term of writeTo

 

But: there is no Action to cover editing/changing existing data.

 

Solution 1:

-          add an Action "edit" for editing/changing existing data

-          make writeTo a narrower term of it

Solution 2: 

-          redefine writeTo to cover editing/changing existing data

-          drop appendTo .

-          . and add this Action:
name: addTo
definition: adding data to an asset at any location

 

Please comment:

-          should we stick to the current definitions

-          if not: should we adopt either solution 1 or solution 2

 

Thanks,

Michael

 

Michael Steidl

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