RE: [DotGNU]RDF based discovery system

[James Mc Parlane]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Michael DuPont [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:24 AM
> To: Norbert Bollow; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [DotGNU]RDF based discovery system
> 
> 
> This ties back into my original proposal for a meta-object workgroup 
> and meta-data repository. 
> http://wiki.dotgnu.org/TaskMetaDataRepository
> 
> That would provide many datasources for a generic discovery system.
> 

I like it.

This sounds like it would complement the MetaWrap project, a
"MetaDataRepository" could act as an API/data directory which a user could
search, a MetaWrap plugin could then be dynamically created by interpreting
the XML and downloading/linking the specified code. The operator/object
could then be mounted in the distributed/grid object model.

What you want to do with the XML description sounds very similar to the
proposed plugin system for MetaWrap 'Amphibian'. I think I or ajmitch showed
you this last year, not sure

(Looks like latest version of doxygen mangles the XML)
http://www.metawrap.com/projects/server/amphibian/docs/developer/html/mw_ser
ver_pluginmanager_requirements.html

The 'clearer' version of this documentation can be found
http://metawrap.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/metawrap/server/amphibian/plugin-man
ager/mw_pm.cpp?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup