Pete Johnston wrote:
> As an aside, I tend to see LOM Application Profiles (and indeed metadata
> application profiles more generally) as specifications for metadata
> which is exposed by/exchanged between/consumed by services - _not_ for
> how the metadata is managed internally to an application. Those two
> things may be quite similar, but they may be quite different - a service
> provider is not really interested in whether the content/value of any
> individual data element is generated on the fly by a data provider's
> software or whether it's been created by a human metadata author.
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> Pete
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Pete,
At the risk of veering off topic a bit,
it can make a difference to a service provider how the record was
generated - software generated records will have 'predictable' errors or
gaps and can be more easily (automatically) 'transformed' if the offered
records aren't up to the service provider requirements. For example
(borrowed from NSDL) if records are using a standard vocabulary for an
element but haven't supplied version details couldn't a service provider
fill in the missing details through checking your schema registry?
John Robertson
Research Assistant
Metadata Workflow Investigation
Centre for Digital Library Research
University of Strathclyde
http://mwi.cdlr.strath.ac.uk
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