Basic HTML version of Foils prepared September 29, 97

Foil 6 Technical Details of BIDM Standard

From Master Set of Foils for 1996 Session of CPS615 NHSE Review Argonne -- September 30 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
Assets are described by a set of (textual string) attributes such as:
Name, Abstract, Cost, DateOfInformation, Domain, Keywords, Language,Restrictions, SecurityClassification, TargetEnvironment, UniqueID,Version, VersionDate.
Specific implementations (such as NHSE RIB) can extend RIB classes and contribute new custom attributes.
RIG specifies also two possible formats for the Web bindings of the BIDM:
  • HTML header files (where attribute/value pairs are represented as name/content entries of the HTML &#060META&#062 tag)
  • dedicated SGML files
Meta-files describing individual assets or the whole catalogs(via HTML or SGML formats) can be linked or moved between individual repositories, thereby supporting interoperability.
  • This mechanism is used by the NHSE RIB interoperability model.

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