applications software metadata

[Noel Winstanley]

Hi,
here's some comments..

Section 3.3
in OperationMode, some other terms could be:
'Plugin'
'Graphical'
maybe 'WebStartable', or something along these lines.

Section 3.4

isn't the 'open source' attribute made redundant by the 'License' element. 

Furthermore, maybe the License should be a name, URL reference pair, rather 
than an inline description.

cost - again, could be redundant if the License says 'commercial'. I think 
describing the purchase cost in the registry isn't a good idea - this is the 
bit of information that will most quickly go out of date.

binary size, memory size - if these are typical values, are they going to be 
of use to anyone? Minimum size would maybe be better.

Protocols & Formats - could we make these enumerations? If it's free-text it's 
going to be very hard to machine-search the registry. - e.g. if the code 
needs to find resources that match VOTABLE, VoTable, VO-Table, ...

Finally, there doesn't seem to be a term in the draft that describes how to 
download or execute the application. I see 'sourceURL', which I assume links 
to the source code. Shouldn't there be a 'downloadURL' too? Or even 
'accessURL' for apps that are browser based or webstartable.

cheers
noel.


On Monday 06 February 2006 22:12, Robert Hanisch wrote:
> Here is a V0.1 draft of applications software metadata.  I have some more
> work to do (like putting in an example) but I thought I'd get this out for
> comments.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob

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