GP.Content Hosting
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GP | Content Hosting | Version: | 0.2 | 
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 | This pattern hosts relatively static content, and makes it available to authorized users in a suitable form. |
Description
This Generic Pattern belongs to "Business Support". This pattern facilitates the storing, editing and retrieving of relatively static content, and makes it available to authorized users in a suitable form. It may support version control, revision control, search, indexing, (semantic) annotation, and format management. To this end, it requires a means to store the content (at least loosely structured, but usually strictly structured) and a means to authenticate and authorize users. Notes:
- The Presentation Engine may be required to support the format management functionality;
- The Data Scanning function may serve to support indexing and search;
- Reduction functionality may be used to de-duplicate, and possibly compress/decompress, the content managed by the pattern.
Functional and Integration view
This is the graphic representation of the functional model of this Generic Pattern:
Generic Pattern Composition
This pattern is an aggregation of the following (mandatory and optional) functions, expressed in Generic Functions:
| Icon | Function | Inclusion | Rationale |
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Content Handling | recommended | This function models the main intelligence of the facility. |
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Presentation Engine | recommended | The Pattern is likely to offer format management capability; the Presentation Engine is the functionality that takes care of this. |
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Presentation Aggregation | optional | Addition of Presentation Aggregation allows to tie other digital content in with the content managed within the Pattern itself. |
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Controlling | recommended | Provides an interface to control how the pattern operates. This interface is needed by technical administrators, but mostly by functional administrators. |
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Caching | optional | The facility may use Caching functionality to increase its capacity to receive and/or return content on request, as well as increase performance when processing content. |
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Data Engine | optional | Addition of Data Engine functionality is a means to model indexing and search capabilities. |
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Rules Engine | optional | The Rules Engine function controls (semantic) annotation, format management and/or supports the Content Handling in its handling of version control and revision control. |
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Reduction | optional | Reduction functionality can cover de-duplication and compression/decompression. |
Services connected with this Generic Pattern
This Generic Pattern has the following mandatory and optional relations with adjacent Generic Services.
| Service | Adjacency | Summary | Rationale |
| Authentication & Authorization | optional | This service can validate an identity claim, and it can validate the permissions required for an action, as part of an Authentication & Authorization process. | This service is nearly always needed to provide access control to the service's consumers and administrators. |
| Data Management | optional | This service provides its consumers the ability to manage strictly structured data. | This service is nearly always used as a back-end to store the content that's being hosted by the Pattern. |
| File Storage | optional | This service offers clients the ability to store, retrieve and modify data in loosely structured form. | The Pattern may use a File Storage service for storing simple content, next to, or instead of, a Data Management service. |
Applied Patterns based on this Generic Pattern
The following Applied Patterns are based wholly or in part on this Generic Pattern: