Agenda

• Discuss proposal to change artifacts from a blank node within the asset resource to a fragment within the asset resource
• Making the asset management specification compatible with hardware and software assets
  • Changes made
    • Added an 'Identifier' property that occurs 0-or-one times
    • Changed the occurs of the 'GUID' and 'Version' properties from exactly-one to zero-or-one
  • Proposed changes
    • Add the following properties with an occurs of zero-or-one times: Serial Number, Model Number, and Manufacturer
  • Questions
    • Should these new properties be merged into the asset management specification or should the concept of a common parent specification (asset management) with child sub-specifications (sofware assets and hardware assets) be considered?
• Review Rational Asset Manager specification implementation

Notes from Meeting

Minutes:

• Artifact as a fragment
  • No objections to this change
  • Samples have been updated
• Combining hardware and software assets
  • Two options
    • Include additional properties within the asset specification and include an appendix discussing the differences between hardware and software assets
      • Pros: Simple to implement, encourages integration between providers of software and hardware assets
      • Cons: May require providers to handle properties that are not necessary for the type of asset they are managing
    • Create common parent specification (asset management) with child sub-specifications (software assets and hardware assets)
      • Pros: Separates properties that may only be valid for software assets
        
      • Cons: More difficult to implement, discourages integration between providers that manage software or hardware assets
  • Options need further discussion
• Rational Asset Manager Implementation of specification
  • The output should be full rdf/xml for the asset resource. Other resources (such as service provider) will use abbreviated rdf/xml

Action Items:

• Sheehan
  • Schedule meeting next week to continue discussion on combining the hardware and software asset resources.

Attendees

IBM

• Eric Bordeau
• Gili Mendel
• Michael Fiedler
• Sheehan Anderson
• Sri Gunturi