ALPS Person Profile

A sample ALPS tutorial. This shows how to use ALPS to document the three key parts of any semantic profile:

- ontology: particular meaning
- taxonomy: arrangement of the parts
- choreography: rules for interaction between the parts

See Dan Klyn's blog post, his short video, and the book Information Architecture for more on these three elements.

• ALPS
• Application State Diagram
• Semantic Descriptors
  • doPersonCreate (unsafe), Add a new person record to the collection.
  • doPersonStatusUpdate (idempotent), Update the status value of an existing person record.
  • doPersonUpdate (idempotent), Update an existing person record.
  • familyName (semantic), Family name.
  • givenName (semantic), Common name.
  • goHome (safe), Navigation action to return the Home resource state.
  • goPersonCollection (safe), Navigation action that returns a list of person records.
  • goPersonFilter (safe), Navigation action that returns a filtered list of person records.
  • goPersonItem (safe), Navigation action that returns a single person record.
  • goPersonStatus (safe), Navigation action that returns the status value of a single person record.
  • goRelated (safe), Get the list of possible valid actions
  • home (semantic), Starting point for the API
  • identifier (semantic), Unique ID of this record.
  • personCollection (semantic), Aggregate object that represents a collection of person records
  • personItem (semantic), Aggregate object that represents a single person.
  • personStatus (semantic), The status of a single person record.
  • relatedActions (semantic), The list of possible actions.
  • status (semantic), Status flag.
• Tags
  • choreography
  • ontology
  • related
  • taxonomy
  • update