Sound Advice for INSPIRE

2007-07-18T16:06:44Z in web, industry, data

It's been reported that the architects of the INSPIRE enterprise are likely to choose WS-*. Before the decision is made, they should read Benjamin Carlyle's lessons of The Web. The point Carlyle makes often, and better than almost anyone else, is the ability of Web-like architectures to evolve. Should INSPIRE's enterprise be a distributed object system, upgrading to new versions across the board simultaneously (and this certainly means rarely)? Or should it be more like The Web, allowing clients, servers, and data to be upgraded independently and as needed? Carlyle's blog is bursting with this kind of sound advice.

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1Re: Sound Advice for INSPIRE

Yves Moisan, 2007-07-19T12:43:49Z

Hi Sean, You've got a typo in one hyperlink : *z*http://www.soundadvice.id.au/blog/2007/06/10/#lessonsOfTheWeb On a related note, I just came across a news on slashdot today which has this interesting excerpt : "Seventy-three percent of [IT] projects with labor cost of less than $750,000 succeed," Jim Johnson says. "But only 3 percent of projects a with labor cost of over $10 million succeed". http://www.cio.com/article/124309 Small is beautiful. I know that ;-). I'll take a small REST now. Cheers,

2Re: Sound Advice for INSPIRE

Sean, 2007-07-19T15:29:46Z

Thanks, Yves.

3REST follow on

Yves Moisan, 2007-07-19T18:05:28Z

Sean, In case you didn't know, there seems to be folks interested in REST at the Multimedia Sprint (Plone 4 Artists) : http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone4artists-sprint/topics Excerpt : " RESTful web services for AT content types and vocabularies We have many use cases that involved the sharing/integrating content and vocabularies between systems. We think that REST is an appropriate technology for such goals. Our work will likely take the form of: * Service providers that adapt AT content objects to be exposed via REST * Tools to consume RESTful content/vocabularplone.org/products/ies into our systems." "AT content objects exposed via REST" may be interesting for Plone/PrimaGIS. Could Atom feeds be wrapped in AT objects to be exposed via REST also ? Cheers

4Re: Sound Advice for INSPIRE

Sean, 2007-07-19T18:39:40Z

Yes: /news/494/designing-simple-gis-services-for-zope/

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