Hello All, epecially Pierre, Scott and Paul.
The direction which Scott and Pierre suggest is certainly one which I would
endorse. A while back I tried building an Access database to illustrate
what an relational structure for IMS metadata would look like. I quickly
came to to the conclusion that the complexity of the table structure
outweighed any advantages of avoiding data duplication etc.
So, if you do only store selected parts of the metadata in a relational
structure, the questions is: how do you parse the content package to
extract the metadata you want to import? If anyone knows of publicly
available scripts/routines/packages/code whatever for doing this then
please share!
Also, the alternative approach is always to get an entire system someone
else has developed. So if it would be interesting to hear from anyone who
knows of a repository system which could help with making NLN content
packages available on an intranet. I realise that obtaining such a sytem
might mean spending money, so if you're selling a system which would help
you can also let us know what it is. I don't want unsolicited advertising
on this list, but if you can offer something that helps with a direct query
I don't care whether you charge for it or not. [I know of a couple of
systems, but don't want to appear to be giving them preferential treatment,
so I'll give other people a chance to have their say first].
Phil.
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