Asset Management Definitions

Asset Consumer

Performs asset searching and retrieval activities outlined in the search and retrieve scenarios.

Asset Resource

An Asset Resource has a set of properties representing a reusable software asset. These properties include such things as name, description, classification, and a collection of Artifact Resources.

Asset Resource Collection

An ordered or unordered set of Asset Resources, typically generated as the result of performing a simple query. It is represented as an Atom collection or a Json array.

Asset Submitter

Performs asset preparation activities outlined in the publish scenario.

Artifact

This term is often used interchangeably with 'work product' or 'file'. An asset may have zero or more artifacts.

Artifact Media Resource

The Artifact Media Resource represents the actual artifact content. The content can be a presentation, a test case, a binary software component, or any other kind of content typically used in software development and delivery activities.

Property

A field which describes the entity which owns it. For example, an asset has many properties such as the asset title, subject/short description, version. An Artifact Resource has many properties such as the artifact title.

Service Provider

An implementation of the OSLC Asset Management specification as a server. OSLC Asset Management clients consume these services.

Work product

This term is often used interchangeably with 'artifact' or 'file'. An asset may have zero or more work products.