OSLC AM Terms

Resource: a 'thing' that is managed by an AM provider. In the AM space resources are highly fragmented, and have many relationships (properties) to other resources. Rendering a resource is often an act of assembling information from all the connecting resources (and beyond). A resource has a perma link URI. Resources do not have individual versions, rather they are part of a baseline or workspace.

Baseline: a frozen set of resources that are interelated and compatible with each other. A baseline is identified with name and URI. A baseline can be derived from another (previous) baseline.

Workspace: an active set of potentially changing resources. A workspace can be derived from a baseline. It has a name and URI. A workspace can be frozen and turned into a baseline.

Change Set: A collection of change records for a particular change request.

Change: a resource that identifies a change in a resource. Its properties include a reference to the changed resource, date/time and user that made the change. It has a reference to a change management request (uri). It also may provide a summary of the change (i.e. a textual summary).

Representation: a presentation of a resource in a specific from. This form may be a diagram, table, or textual display that uses resources properties, and the properties of related resources and system properties/settings (even from those not explicitly mentioned in the original set of resources).

Render: the process by which a representation is created. Rendering a resource involves the reading and (possibly delegated rendering) of other related resources.