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Comment 05 on Section 5.1
Section 5 > Artifact Management > Types of Artifacts > Static Models November 22 version
This section has many problems. HL7 MIF, UML and 11179 are not Information models. They are metamodels. That is, they provide a vocabulary for expressing other models. HL7 RIM, BRIDG, and LS-DAM are not metamodels. Instead, they can (with proper transformation to formal representation) be used as upper ontologies which constrain the semantics of lower-level ontologies. OWL and RDF are knowledge representation languages. They both have multiple serializations (syntactic models).
RESOLUTON: Agree. The language in the section is misleading. The intent was to communicate any model or schema can be stored in the registry. Irrespective of representation and level of abstraction. Raghu Chintalapati
Comment 04 on Section 5.1
Section 5 > Artifact Management > Types of Artifacts > Behavioral Models November 22 version
One has to be careful here what to call the "behavior of services". As indicated in, e.g., the HL7 Behavioral Framework (by John Koisch), behavior is "A collection of interactions with a set of constraints on when they can occur in a given Working Interoperability /business process context". In other words writing something like "Behavior of services provides an unambiguous definition of the service constraints, capabilities, dependencies, and interactions" is vague and probably not in-line with the SAIF. For example, capabilities of services indicate what the service does, not how it does it (the behavior).
RESOLUTON: Document updated to reflect comment. Charlie Mead
Comment 03 on Section 5.1
Comment on November 22 version
Listing "Orchestration and Workflows", as well as "Business Rules" under Dynamic Models is too vague compared to the approach under static models where technologies such as OWL etc are explicitly mentioned. What kind of Business Rules, what kind of orchestration and workflows? What are the technologies?
RESOLUTION: Edited to reflect the comment. Charlie Mead
Comment 02 on Section 5.1
Section 5 > Artifact Management > Types of Artifacts > Content November 22 version
Content is a vague term, everything is content. In particular one should not define it as "Content includes all unstructured text and other forms of content...". This is circular. The "Content" paragraph suffers from vagueness. "Content includes: images and other representations of static content". So, content is also static models?
RESOLUTION: The intent of the section was to communicate that service specifications contain different artifacts, some of which are unstructured. The unstructured artifacts in a specification could include text, images, etc. For example a service specification might include cmaps (concept maps), which aren't UML models. These cmaps are part of the specification and are important communication tool. Not all artifacts at the conceptual level are computable, and SI is expected to support multiple approaches. Raghu Chintalapati
Comment 01 on Section 5.1
Section 5 > Artifact Management > Types of Artifacts > Artifact Management Functions November 22 version
Does managing the lifecycle, governance and versioning of the models, content and forms also include the Specification Content from the previous paragraph?
RESOLUTION: Yes. But the ability to validate and govern some of this content will be limited as they are not computable. Raghu Chintalapati
