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The WebDAV property design
Author(s) -
Whitehead E. James,
Goland Yaron Y.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.574
Subject(s) - metadata , marshalling , computer science , software versioning , meta data services , world wide web , software deployment , protocol (science) , metadata repository , database , operating system , software , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Abstract This paper provides a detailed description of the general design space for metadata storage capabilities. The design space considers issues of metadata identification, typing and representation, dynamic behavior, predefined and user‐defined metadata, schema discovery/update, operations, API packaging/marshalling, searching, and versioning. The design space is used to structure a retrospective analysis of the three major alternative metadata designs considered during the design of the WebDAV distributed authoring protocol. Deployment experience with WebDAV properties is also discussed, with the most successful use occurring in custom client/server pairs and in protocol extensions. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.