Service Classification Schemes Functional Profile
A classification scheme for organizing services based on business objectives, domain, and usage
The Service Metadata makes use of defined semantics, where the semantics may be used for categorization or providing other property and value information for description classes. This requires the following capabilities:
- semantic models that provide normative descriptions of the utilized terms, where the models may range from a simple dictionary of terms to an ontology showing complex relationships and capable of supporting enhanced reasoning;
- mechanisms to support the storage, referencing, and access to these semantic models;
- configuration management mechanisms to capture the normative description of each semantic model and to apply a unique identifier in a manner consistent with an identified versioning scheme;
- one or more mechanisms to support the storage, referencing, and access to conversion relationships between semantic models, and the mechanisms to carry out such conversions.
Capability Elaborations
This Functional Profile includes, but is not limited to, the following capability elaborations:
Derived From Requirements
- Semantic Infrastructure Requirements::Service Discovery and Governance::Administer Services The use of well defined service metadata promotes better discovery and reuse of services during design and run time. Service metadata includes information about service interactions and dependencies. It also includes a classification scheme for organizing services based on business objectives, domain, and usage. It also links services to all the supporting artifacts in the specification and provides a placeholder for conformance statements. This enables better reuse across the enterprise and eliminates redundancy.
serviceClassificationModel capability elaboration
Service Classification Model with capabilities to create, destroy, edit, maintain service descriptions.
A classification scheme for organizing services based on business objectives, domain, and usage
The ServiceClassification Model implementation includes the following capabilities
- metamodels and semantic annotations that provide normative descriptions of the utilized service description terms, where the models may range from a simple dictionary of terms to an ontology showing complex relationships and capable of supporting enhanced reasoning; Specific semantic concepts to be used include business objectives, domain, and usage.
- mechanisms to support the storage, referencing, and access to these semantic models;
- configuration management mechanisms to capture the normative description of each semantic model and to apply a unique identifier in a manner consistent with an identified versioning scheme;
- one or more mechanisms to support the storage, referencing, and access to conversion relationships between semantic models, and the mechanisms to carry out such conversions.
