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Ontology / Assurance

Operational Memory

Assurance since 1.0 aow:OperationalMemory

Short-lived, execution-oriented memory scoped to a session, Task, or Work Item.

Carries state across the steps of a single piece of work.

A kind of Memory.

Attributes

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
store_refuriWhere the memory is held. (from Memory)
retention_policytextHow long entries are kept and when they are purged. (from Memory)

Every entity also has an id and a type, and may carry label, description, and the provenance facet: version, created_at, created_by, revision_of.

Pointed to by

FromRelationshipRead backward as
Contextdraws_oninforms
Feedbackupdatesupdated by
Actorwrites_towritten by

Example

Source: examples/claims-processing.jsonld. The example passes all validation checks.

{
  "id": "mem-runtime-claims",
  "type": "OperationalMemory",
  "label": "Claims runtime memory",
  "retention_policy": "Purged 30 days after the claim closes."
}

Term reference · JSON Schema · SHACL shape aowsh:OperationalMemoryShape