Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of ComposedMetadataRecords
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- Aug 31, 2009, 8:57:14 PM (15 years ago)
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v9 v10 20 20 21 21 === Links === 22 * '''Subtemplates''': Metadata fragments are equivalent to subtemplates (which were only partially implemented in !GeoNetwork). Subtemplates appear to have been an extension of the template concept in !GeoNetwork. Templates are complete metadata records with some elements filled in. A user can clone such a record for use in the editor as a template. At this This proposal intends to implement subtemplates as fragments of metadata harvested from an external database.22 * '''Subtemplates''': Metadata fragments are equivalent to subtemplates (which were only partially implemented in !GeoNetwork). Subtemplates appear to have been an extension of the template concept in !GeoNetwork. Templates are complete metadata records with some elements filled in. A user can clone such a record for use in the editor as a template. At this stage all connection between the template and the cloned record is broken ie. changes to the template are not visible in the cloned record and vice versa. Subtemplates (as they were partially implemented in !GeoNetwork) took the template concept down to the level of individual elements in the metadata record. So for example, contact information would be implemented This proposal intends to implement subtemplates as fragments of metadata harvested from an external database. 23 23 * '''Composed, Componentized and Relational Metadata''': The idea of composed or componentized metadata and the term itself, appears to be common to many discussions on the net eg. (albeit obliquely) http://eww.jot.fm/issues/issue_2007_11/column6.pdf. Another term with similar concepts is "relational" metadata (LISASoft metadata report). Although there has been discussion in and around these topics and even some implementation of fragments in GeoNetwork as subtemplates, this proposal appears to be the first to suggest the mechanisms for implementing these concepts in !GeoNetwork using fragments harvested from a database with a WFS interface. 24 24 * '''Email discussions''': … … 40 40 Future work would add: 41 41 42 * URN resolver to provide a level of indirection that can be used to cope with changing URLs 42 * Transaction support - sometimes it makes sense for a fragment to be edited and saved back into the external database. WFS-T support would be used to provide this facility. 43 * Support for metadata from GeoServer community schemas, including how to configure the GeoServer WFS embedded with GeoNetwork to provide the WFS interface. 44 * URN resolver to provide a level of indirection that can be used to cope with changing URLs and ensure referential integrity. Metadata fragments are linked into records using XLinks. XLinks can use URLs or URNs in the link attribute (xlink:href). URNs are intended to provide a permanent A service that provides the ability to register a urn and associated URL, and lookup a URL given a URN, would allow the implementation to use URNs in place of URLs, thus providing a measure of control over broken links/missing content which can occur if we were to use URLs. 43 45 44 46 === Backwards Compatibility Issues === 45 47 48 Metadata records as traditionally handled by GeoNetwork should not be affected by the addition of this feature. 49 50 Effects on harvesting: Composed metadata records can have their XLinks resolved before they are harvested as a harvester usually updates the set of records harvested from a remote site on a regular basis. If there was a requirement for composed metadata records to be harvested with unresolved XLinks then this could be made as an 51 52 Effects on export (eg. MEF): Composed metadata records exported as MEF files would normally have their XLinks resolved before export. 53 54 XLinks and metadata records composed from xlink'd fragments can be made optional through the use of a system configuration option. 46 55 == Risks == 47 56 48 57 == Participants == 49 * Simon Pigot 58 * Simon Pigot, IMOS/eMii 59 * Geocat.ch implementors - have similar requirements including transaction support for metadata fragments 50 60 * Other XLink implementors: Jesse, Francois, Patrick 51 61 * Others?