What is an XDI dictionary?
Like a real-world dictionary, an XDI dictionary is a Dataweb site that publishes a set of “words” (XRIs) and “definitions” (XDI documents) for the purpose of helping establish equivalence across a community of users and applications. The biggest difference is that XDI dictionaries are machine-readable and can also support XDI links to subscribing Dataweb sites that have an interest in new or updated vocabulary. • What is the XDI Service Dictionary? The XDI Service Dictionary, which is developed and maintained by the OASIS XDI TC, plays a special role because its purpose is to define the global set of XDI resources used to describe and control XDI data sharing using XDI forms and link contracts. In this respect it might be analogous to a specialized legal dictionary. • Will there be other XDI dictionaries? Yes. Like real-world dictionaries, XDI dictionaries can be published by any authority and can cover any fields of interest, from very general to very specialized. Generalized XDI dict
