OSLCfest 2022: When to Link and why we might not want to Sync
Channel: Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
Date: 23/05/2023

by Robert Baillargeon

Too often we talk about linked data we assume that the motivations for this style of integration are understood. This includes both the good values and the challenging points. The alternative to linked data, synchronizing data, has similarly inverted appeal. Pragmatically, we as engineers will use both. It, however, is wickedly valuable to understand linked data's, and OSLC in particular, business values so we choose wisely in our methods of connections and compositions.

In this session we will illustrate the values of OSLC integrations as compared to synchronized solutions. Our goal is to illuminate the options and the values. Performance, data ownership, security, deployment concerns and other architecture values will be discussed with pragmatic engineering team applications to show differences. Some example OSLC solutions will be shown to illustrate specific points.

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