TRAK Architecture Framework / Blog: Recent posts

Adapted from original posted on trak-community.org 4th February 2010

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The TRAK specification documents don't itself define how architecture description is done or managed. How, therefore, might TRAK itself be administered?

This is clearly a balancing trick. On the one side with London Underground having agreed to release the architecture framework as open source it seems sensible to keep it as open and accessible as possible and involve as many as is sensible. Ideas collection and work is a product of the size of the community so in this sense ‘large’ is good.... read more

This post provides a behind-the-scenes desciption of what is done by the designers of TRAK in order to add a triple to the TRAK metamodel for use in a TRAK architecture viewpoint.

It covers:-

• terms used - ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010
• what is a triple?
• why is the triple needed?
• where does the triple appear in an architecture description?
  • governing architecture viewpoint
  • architecture views
    • presented content
    • order of creation
• how do we represent this triple?
  • Structure
  • Semantics
• housekeeping - changes and versions
• the end result - specifications and web pages
• concluding remarks... read more