org.osid.acknowledgement

Interface Summary
Interface	Description
AcknowledgementManager	The acknowledgement manager provides access to acknowledgement sessions and provides interoperability tests for various aspects of this service.
AcknowledgementProfile	The acknowledgement profile describes the interoperability among acknowledgement services.
AcknowledgementProxyManager	The acknowledgement manager provides access to acknowledgement sessions and provides interoperability tests for various aspects of this service.
Billing	A `Billing` represents a collection of credits.
BillingAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `Billings.`
BillingForm	This is the form for creating and updating `Billings.`
BillingHierarchyDesignSession	This session manages a hierarchy of billings.
BillingHierarchySession	This session defines methods for traversing a hierarchy of `Billing` objects.
BillingList	Like all `OsidLists,` `BillingList` provides a means for accessing `Billing` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
BillingLookupSession	This session provides methods for retrieving `Billing` objects.
BillingNode	This interface is a container for a partial hierarchy retrieval.
BillingNodeList	Like all `OsidLists,` `BillingNodeList` provides a means for accessing `BillingNode` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
BillingNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `Billing` objects.
BillingQuery	This is the query for searching for billings.
BillingQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
BillingQuerySession	This session provides methods for querying `Billing` objects.
BillingReceiver	The billing receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted `Billing` objects.
BillingSearch	The search interface for governing billing searches.
BillingSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
BillingSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
BillingSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching `Billing` objects.
Credit	A `Credit` relates a `Resource` with a reference to an `Id` .
CreditAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `Credits.`
CreditBillingAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign `Credits` to `Bilings.`
CreditBillingSession	This session provides methods to retrieve `Credit` to `Billing` mappings.
CreditForm	This is the form for creating and updating `Credit` objects.
CreditList	Like all `OsidLists,` `CreditList` provides a means for accessing `Credit` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
CreditLookupSession	This session defines methods for retrieving credits.
CreditNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `Credit` objects.
CreditQuery	This is the query for searching credits.
CreditQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
CreditQuerySession	This session provides methods for querying `Credit` objects.
CreditReceiver	The credit receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new or deleted credits.
CreditSearch	The search interface for governing credit searches.
CreditSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
CreditSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
CreditSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching `Credit` objects.
CreditSmartBillingSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic catalogs.

Package org.osid.acknowledgement Description

The Open Service Interface Definitions for the org.osid.acknowledgement service.

The Acknowledgement OSID defines and relates credits such as authors or creators to OsidObjects.

Credits

Credits are relationships between what is being credited and to what the credit applies. The enttity being credited is represented by a Resource. This service does not define the entity to which the credit applies and instead references an OSID Id external to this service. The Id is a reference to an entity managed outside this service.

The external Id reference positions the Acknowledgement OSID as an auxiliary service that can be orchestrated with other OSIDs to provide acknowledgements with any OsidObject. Resource is an abstract interface used for a variety of purposes including people. The Acknowledgement OSID this has a very abstract feel whose primary focus is to manage the relationships.

As with many OsidRelationships, the genus Type can be used to describe the nature of the relationship, such as a writer or photographer. The CreditRecord may be used to capture data related to the relatonship itself.

OsidRelationships are temporal by including effective dates.

Billing Cataloging

Credits are mapped to Billings for organization. Billings can be managed hierarchically to federate multiple collections of Credits .

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