- From: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:34:04 +0600
- To: "David Allsopp" <dallsopp@signal.dera.gov.uk>
- Cc: "RDF-Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
<- I'm not 100% clear on what you mean by 'process' here; you hint in the <- document that RPP can be used for online and offline processes, but also <- processes such as boiling an agg. An online 'process' could presumably <- also be called a web service? Yes indeedy, the main reason I didn't mention this was that I never though of it ;-) Is it the intent to be able to describe <- fully the "API" of the service here? That's a good way of putting it - but an API usually is defined pretty completely, I was thinking that an RPP would only require the barest minimum to allow a single (perhaps set) of process(es) to be carried out, and/or alternately for discovery of further information/other ways of carrying out the process. <- I'm a little confused by the reference to the algorithm; surely most of <- the time one needn't know the algorithm behind a service? I didn't word this bit very well, I'm pretty much talking of using the identifier of the algorithm as an identifier for the process (though the URI might happen to be a URL where e.g. the source code could be found). <- 8-) Reading the document, I kept coming up with questions and then going <- back and noticing the answer in the first para of the introduction; <- there's a lot of info there! It might help to break it up a bit to <- emphasise each point... Fair comment - when I get chance, I will. Meantime I must improve my writing style ;-) <- There are representations for activities etc from the planning community <- that might be useful, e.g. http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/spar/ I've not seen that before - thanks. <- Could you perhaps add a 'storyboard' example or two of how you envisage <- RPP being used? Hmm - I thought about doing this (and maybe I will) but I have doubts about implying fairly specific applications - when I tried to describe something like this in terms of a use case (rather involved : statistical data, a format convertor, some analysis tools and some XSL stuff), one correspondent got the impression I was just trying to do data analysis. I've had this idea on my mind a while, so I fall into the trap of assuming everyone knows what I'm on about - the wife nods & smiles. Thanks for your comments, Cheers, Danny.
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