On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:16:55PM +0100, Roland Schwaenzl wrote:
> > In order to display "DC-Chinese" in its entirety, that
> > information would either need to be included in the external
> > annotation, which as you point out is redundant and risks going
> > out of synch with the original over time. Or one would rely
> > on the DCMI Registry to merge the Chinese annotation with
> > the central DCMI schema and display the integrated result.
> > Or one would rely on some other server-side application to
> > merge and display the schemas in that manner.
> >
> > I lean towards keeping the external annotations minimal and
> > relying on applications to merge them for display.
>
> Is that very practical?
I suppose it depends which applications are likely to use
the schemas. The registry would of course know what to do,
and other applications could presumably also know if programmed
accordingly.
The alternative, as I understand it, is to replicate redundant
information in multiple schemas, which seems practical as a
quick fix but impractical to maintain in the longer term.
Then there's Pete's compromise idea: put lots of redundant
information in the secondary schemas so that they are
self-contained and useful "as is". Then ignore everything
but the language-dependent bits when the data is merged into
the DCMI registry.
Which do you think is the most practical?
Tom
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