Baez Marcos, Casati Fabio and Marchese Maurizio. Universal Resource Lifecycle Management [Conference] // Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2009, March 29 2009 - April 2 2009. - Shanghai, China : IEEE, 2009. - pp. 1741-1748

Abstract
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 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.

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