Process Module: Describe Entity

Process Title: Expose Metadata

Definition: Process where metadata has been made available for capture.

Workflow / Process Diagrams:

Use Cases: Metadata being exposed could be 1) financial, 2) information about physical resources (e.g. which computers are open for use; which group study rooms are open for use), or 3) information about your staff member’s expertise. It could also include bringing information back into the system (e.g. a book description is exposed, patron adds a review which goes back into the system,  book description is re-exposed including the review.)

Reference(s):

1. (NLA Services Framework 5.9: Syndicate) Make available a business object for consumption at any location.
2. (e-Framework Service Genre: Syndicate)  Makes representations of objects available for consumption by services or applications in a consistent and standardised way. The archetypical example of syndication is that of a news feed, where representations (summaries) of news items are published by a provider. Requesters MAY then pull the summaries from the news feed and request the full stories. Representations MAY be pushed as well as pulled. Syndication SHOULD NOT reproduce the original object – the original object SHOULD be requested separately by consumers of the syndicated representation, who use syndication to discover that original object. As defined, the syndicate service genre is not access controlled. Any client may attempt to contact the Syndicate Service end point. There are no authentication controls. The Service End Point is responsible for the determining which representations it will return and from which clients it will accept requests.As defined, the syndicate service genre does not specify how new representations of objects are made available to be syndicated. Service Expressions MAY specify how new representations of objects are made available for syndication.