On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Phil Barker wrote:
> Please correct me if I you think I'm wrong, but to me it seems quite
> clear that both the text and the hierarchy (the Source element is nested
> in the Taxon Path element, and so relates to the other elements nested
> in the Taxon Path element, cf. the Purpose element which is at the
> Classification level and so relates to all elements in that category) in
> the standard lead me to the conclusion that the 9.2.1 Source element
> applies only to the element 9.2.2 Taxon, not to 9.4 Keywords (in other
> words, 9.2.2 Taxon is where you put the terms selected from the taxonomy
> specified in the TaxonPath).
I agree.
>> If it's not clear in the LOM/UK LOM Core documentation how keywording
>> and classification are supported, then I think you have highlighted a
>> point of ambiguity, and hence of potential interoperability breakdown,
>> which should be clarified in a future release of LOM/UK LOM Core.
>
> Is there any demand for more authoritative clarification of this?
> Or for local practice (ie UK LOM Core) to be that you can use element
> 9.2.1 to specify the source of keywords used in 9.4? --would doing this
> break anyone's instances?
I haven't been following the previous discussion but why would you want to
do this? That would completely ignore the hierarchy in LOM and would be
bad move IMHO.
Andy
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