Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Glossary

The glossary terms below are used frequently within the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration specifications, the definitions here are those intended by the authors. Note that Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration specific, or Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration introduced terms are noted with italics.

Atom

A set of standards comprising the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol.

Atom Entry

A part of the Atom Syndication Format and corresponds to the outermost XML element of an Atom document that describes an entry in a collection.

Atom Feed

A part of the Atom Syndication Format and corresponds to the outermost XML element of an Atom document that describes a collection of entries.

Atom Media Entry

A part of the Atom specifications that deals with members of a collection that are not formatted either as Atom Feeds or Atom Entries.

Atom Publishing Protocol (Atompub, formerly APP)

An HTTP based protocol for creation of collections based upon the Atom Syndication Format. See Atom

Collection

An informal term often used synonymously with Atom Feed.

Content Negotiation

The notion of using either URL properties or request content types to return one of a number of possible resource representations. See Architecture of the World Wide Web, section 3.2.2.

Content Type

The specified MIME type denoting the resource representation format. See MIME Part Two: Media Types..

DELETE

The HTTP method used to delete the resource specified by the request URI. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 9.7.

Entity

See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 7. See also Resource.

Entity Body

See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 7.2. See also Resource.

Entity Tag

See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 3.11.

GET

The HTTP method used to retrieve the resource specified by the request URI. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 9.3.

HEAD

The HTTP method used to retrieve the headers only for the resource specified by the request URI. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 9.4.

Index Property

A value extracted an indexer and made available for query.

Index Rule

A mechanism for client applications to instruct the server indexer on how to extract index properties from a resource.

Indexer

A component of the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration provider that extracts index properties from a resource and makes them available for query. An indexer may be configurable, using one or more index rules to define the properties to extract.

POST

The HTTP method used to create a resource as a child of the resource identified by the request URI. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 9.5.

PUT

The HTTP method used to create a resource at the location specified by the request URI. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, section 9.6.

Resource

Some meaningful software artifact, defined by the Architecture of the World Wide Web as: The term "resource" is used in a general sense for whatever might be identified by a URI.

Resource Representation

See Architecture of the World Wide Web, section 3.2.

Resource, Secondary

Defined by the Architecture of the World Wide Web as: The secondary resource may be some portion or subset of the primary resource, some view on representations of the primary resource, or some other resource defined or described by those representations. See also Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, section 3.5.

Revision

A particular state of a resource; each time a resource is updated a new revision is created.

Workspace

A term from the Atom Publishing Protocol and an element in an Aton Service Document.