[seek-kr-sms] SMS Partial Design -- Request for Comments

[Matt Jones]

Too cool for words!  I'll have to realy dig into this and get back to 
you, but I am very excited about what you produced. This is exactly the 
type of design doc that allows us to get more people involved in the 
implementation.  Thanks, Shawn.

Matt

Shawn Bowers wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I checked in some additions to the SEEK SMS design docs I've been 
> working on.
> 
> In particular, this document contains all of the most recent stuff that 
> is finished as a draft.
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/seek/projects/kr-sms/docs/SMS-API-Design-Apr01-2004.pdf 
> 
> 
> I would really like your feedback on this (somewhat preliminary) design, 
>  before moving on to additional design work and prototyping (which I 
> have already started, but anyway), etc.
> 
> The design consists of a very high-level view of the services provided 
> by KR/SMS.  Then, it goes over four informal use-cases: (1) defining 
> semantic registration mappings, (2) semantic dataset discovery (of which 
> there is a prototype, but more on that later), (3) semantic actor 
> classification (an alternative or supplement to the current Kepler 
> proposal -- the idea being that the KR/SMS component leverages 
> ontologies for dynamically constructing relevant Kepler file folders for 
> browsing actors), and (4) structural data transformation for actor 
> composition.  [Note that these use cases are just a preliminary set of 
> use cases for KR/SMS -- to get things going for development and to 
> appease our project manager :-) ]
> 
> The first two use cases have some detail: The registration use case 
> provides a notional interface for easy semantic attachment and sequence 
> diagrams; The dataset discovery shows an example query (with a similar 
> interface as for registration) and a corresponding sequence diagram. The 
> last two use cases are not "filled" out in this style. Note that there 
> are no "words" for the slides (unless you count the 1000 words 
> associated with each picture).
> 
> I would really appreciate your feedback, comments, etc. on this stuff.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shawn
> 
> 
> 
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