Data and services

[Tony Linde]

Badly worded - sorry. I was trying to get at a concept which encompassed
multiple datasets not to imply that the data collection could be directly
addressed. 

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Patrick Dowler
> Sent: 12 September 2003 20:30
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> Subject: Re: Data and services
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> On Friday 12 September 2003 10:26, Tony Linde wrote:
> > A data collection is any set of data which can be queried.
> 
> "queried" is an action, ie. method invocation, so how is a
> data collection different from a service that provides access 
> to a data collection?
> 
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