In my hurry in previous message I forgot to properly attribute where the
content validation idea came from. The idea was suggested by John Silva
of Philips and Nikola independently as a follow-up to Content-based
Discovery feature. John has been a quite force behind the scenes on many
ideas and improvements in V3.
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> (Resending as it went to wrong alias previously)
>
> One suggestion I have since f2f is to rename Content-based Discovery
> chapter to "Content Management Services" and have one major section
> called "Content Cataloguing Service". I am also proposing that we add
> a very similar "Content Validation Service" which instead of creating
> catalog data simply returns returns a boolean on whether the content
> being submitted is syntactically and semantically valid or not. If not
> valid then it is not accepted for submission. Nikola can describe this
> proposed feature as we have discussed this in detail.
>
> The cost of specifying this new service is negligible as it builds on
> the work for Content-based Discovery. And it would be a most valuable
> feature as the biggest issue with registries is the quality of their
> content.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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Regards,
Farrukh
