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Metadata Record Sibling Relationships
Date | 2012/09/20 |
Contact(s) | Simon Pigot |
Last edited | 2012-09-20 |
Status | complete, being discussed |
Assigned to release | 2.9.0 |
Resources | Available |
Ticket # | #XYZ |
Overview
ISO Metadata records can be related to one another in different ways. The mechanisms for handling these relationships are most often part of the standard in the form of specific elements eg. parent-child relationships are handled through the parentIdentifier element and the datasets that a service delivers are handled through the operatesOn element. GeoNetwork:
- can index these relationships to support search
- has services for retrieving a specific set of related records or the entire collection of related records
This proposal adds sibling relationships between metadata records to GeoNetwork. The elements in the ISO standard that support sibling relationships are the aggregatedInformation element. Sibling relationships types can be specified using an extendible codelist. Sibling records would be displayed under the relationship type. An example of how sibling relations are displayed in the classic interface and the new ExtJS interface is shown below.
Proposal Type
- Type: GUI Change, Core Change, Module Change, Guideline and project governance procedures, ...
- App: GeoNetwork or !Intermap
- Module: eg. Harvester, Kernel, Data Manager, Metadata Import, Lucene Index, Search Interface ...
Links
- Documents:
- Email discussions:
- Other wiki discussions:
Voting History
- Vote proposed by X on Y, result was +/-n (m non-voting members).
Motivations
There is a need to describe named sibling relationships between metadata records.
Proposal
Aggregate Information in a record that has a related sibling record looks something like the following:
<gmd:aggregateInformation> <gmd:MD_AggregateInformation> <gmd:aggregateDataSetIdentifier> <gmd:MD_Identifier> <!-- optional gmd:authority here: could have details of a register describing the some details of the sibling record --> <!-- code is UUID/urn of the sibling record, could be a gmx:Anchor --> <gmd:code> <gco:CharacterString>urn:marine.csiro.au:project:1532</gco:CharacterString> </gmd:code> </gmd:MD_Identifier> </gmd:aggregateDataSetIdentifier> <gmd:associationType> <gmd:DS_AssociationTypeCode codeList="http://...#DS_AssociationTypeCode" codeListValue="crossReference">crossReference</gmd:DS_AssociationTypeCode> </gmd:associationType> <!-- initiative type describes the type of sibling relationship - in this case the code is a project related to the record that contains this aggregateInformation --> <gmd:initiativeType> <gmd:DS_InitiativeTypeCode codeList="http://...#DS_InitiativeTypeCode" codeListValue="project">project</gmd:DS_InitiativeTypeCode> </gmd:initiativeType> </gmd:MD_AggregateInformation> </gmd:aggregateInformation>
Backwards Compatibility Issues
New libraries added
Explain which and why new libraries are required for that proposal ...
Risks
Participants
- List of participants and role (if necessary) in current GIP
Attachments (4)
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- EditingAggregationInfo.png (50.4 KB ) - added by 12 years ago.
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siblings.patch
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Git patch for metadata sibling relations
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