Universal Resource Lifecycle Management

Marcos Báez, Fabio Casati, Maurizio Marchese
2009 Proceedings / International Conference on Data Engineering  
This paper presents a model and a tool that allows Web users to define, execute, and manage lifecycles for any artifact available on the Web. In the paper we show the need for lifecycle management of Web artifacts, and we show in particular why it is important that non-programmers are also able to do this. We then discuss why current models do not allow this, and we present a model and a system implementation that achieves lifecycle management for any URI-identifiable and accessible object. The
more » ... most challenging parts of the work lie in the definition of a simple but universal model and system (and in particular in allowing universality and simplicity to coexist) and in the ability to hide from the lifecycle modeler the complexity intrinsic in having to access and manage a variety of resources, which differ in nature, in the operations that are allowed on them, and in the protocols and data formats required to access them.
doi:10.1109/icde.2009.156 dblp:conf/icde/BaezCM09 fatcat:tifw2fhhobfwjmm426ulnpscky