Fact Sheet: Open Service Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)

General

Short Description/ Transmitted Information	Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is a set of specifications that enable integration of software development. It has evolved, and continues to evolve, to areas such as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Product lifecycle Management (PLM), IT Operations and more.
Application Scope	Software and Systems Engineering
Maturity	Industrialization
Goals	- Provide uniform access to heterogeneous data sources - Enable technological, syntactical and semantic interoperability - Enable interlinking of data artefacts of different types, disciplines and along the product life cycle - Integrate user interfaces from different tools (e.g. delegated UIs) - Support generic engineering processes like cross-tool configuration & change management
Penetration	Internal collaboration processes
Visibility	Approx. 30%
Promoting Bodies	- prostep ivip Association - OASIS - ASAM - OMG - INCOSE - CRYSTAL, CP-SETIS (Europe)
Type	- OASIS Technical Committees - Lightweight standard for tool interoperability - Minimalistic specification
IT Standard Classification	open Specification
Data Format	RDF, http
Relations to other standards	OSLC/ SysML / UML/ XMI/ ReqIF / RDF /REST
Overlap with other standards	RDF, Graph DB

AVAILABLE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION

The OSLC Core Specification is a Hypermedia API standard mainly adopted in software and systems engineering domains, but with the potential to provide value to any domain with data integration challenges. The OSLC Core specifications expands on the W3C LDP capabilities, to define the essential and common technical elements of OSLC domain specifications and offers guidance on common concerns for creating, updating, retrieving, and linking to lifecycle resources.
OSLC is not the only way to build a linked architecture but it reduces implementation effort as far as specifications exist.

Main Focus on Software and System Development
Federated Architecture can be supported by other Technologies (Graph DB)
Obstacle for implementation is the missing methodology and experiance for interdisciplinary collaboration