On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Sarah Currier wrote:
> I would have thought that using the Relation element would be another
> way of doing this, but Andy's subsequent email made me think; does this
> element only allow for relations to other electronic learning objects,
> or to any resource, such as a journal?
I guess that relation can be used to provide information about 'any other
resource' (on the basis that for most things, there will be somebody,
somewhere that considers it to be a 'learning object')!
My point is that, if you are describing a journal article then the journal
is a 'related resource' (and therefore, information about it could go into
'relation') but the citation for 'the article in the journal' is
information about the article - therefore it doesn't belong in relation.
> If Andy's solution was used, how would the information about the journal
> be made easily accessible to the end user? Would the user interface have
> to take the journal details out of the OpenURL and present them as a
> journal citation?
Yes. That's what computers are good at! ;-) The OPenURL is designed to
be machine-parsable.
Andy
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