Making the core model more generic and supporting action profiles

[Scott Wilson]

Hi everyone,

We have a new project kicking off soon where we want to develop Edukapp for a more generic software catalogue.

The main difference from a widget store is that the set of actions that apply to entries may differ.

For example, some software products are downloadable, and you have a link to the source repo. For others there is an online demo, etc.

As Gadgets and Widgets already have different affordances (e.g. you can download a widget but not a gadget) I thought it would make sense to model actions and product types in Edukapp.

E.g.

PRODUCT: W3C_WIDGET
ACTION: Download
URL: http://...

PRODUCT: DESKTOP_APPLICATION
ACTION: Download
URL: http://

PRODUCT: HOSTED_APPLICATION
ACTION: Demo
URL: http://

In Solr we would need to alter the schema for inbound metadata to convey the URLs for different action types.

How does this sound?

S

[f.wild]

Hi,

On 13/11/2012 17:17, Scott Wilson wrote:

How does this sound?

I think this is a good idea!

And explicitly modelling it is also (I think)
the only way. We would not be able to discover
what action is behind a url -- too heterogeneous.

Best,
Fridolin