Requirements
Updated: 15 April 2002, H. Holger Rath
Version: 0.1 Status: Draft
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1. Introduction
This document sets down the
requirements that will guide the work of the XMLvoc TC. These
requirements document the intentions of the TC. The purpose of this
document is to make it clear what can be expected to come out of the
TC's work, and to encourage the user community to make their needs
known to the TC.
The following key words are used to
indicate the degree of certainty associated with each particular
requirement:
- Shall
- Means that the requirement is absolute.
- Should
- Means that the requirement is a goal.
- May
- Means that the requirement is considered important, but that it is not yet
clear whether the TC's work should conform to it or not.
2. Requirements in brief
- The XMLvoc TC shall deliver -
besides this requirements document - a core vocabulary with
Published Subjects for XML standards and technologies, examples how
to apply the vocabulary, and recommendations for the definition of
further Published Subjects for XML standards and technologies.
- The core vocabulary shall be
limted to the scope of core XML standards and technologies.
- The core vocabulary shall be
defined following the recommendations of the PubSubj TC.
- The core vocabulary shall be
documented in XHTML and should be documented in XTM.
- The example shall be a topic map
in XTM format, but also an RDF example may be considered.
- The example shall show the typical
use of the topics, topic classes, and association classes defined by
the core vocabulary.
- The recommendations shall describe how
third parties can extend the core vocabulary with their own topics,
topic types, and association types.
- The recommendations should contain an
example of such an extension. The extension example should be provided
in XHTML format and may be provided in XTM format.
- The target market for the results of the XMLvoc TC
shall be all subject-based applications about core XML standards and
technologies.
3.
Requirements in detail
TBD
4. Non-requirements
- The core vocabulary shall not cover topics,
topic classes, and association classes of XML standards and technologies of
vertical industry applications of the core XML standards.
- The target market for the results of the
XMLvoc TC shall not be limited to topic map applications.
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