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I agree with Pete. SCONE has tried using the logo property (I think it may have
come from an early implementation of the RSLP schema) but it doesn't add much to
functionality except the odd (in both senses of the word) pretty picture.

Cheers.

Gordon

Quoting Pete Johnston <[log in to unmask]>:

> Andrew,
> 
> > How would people search on a logo property? I'm not sure I 
> > see and relevance in having a 'logo' proerty for discovery purposes.
> 
> I don't think it is useful for searching (but OTOH, I don't think we've
> limited ourselves strictly to information which will be
> searchable/searched).
> 
> The only value I can see for it is to provide something that can be
> displayed as part of a result set. I guess if I was pushed I might make
> an argument that it assists identification by a human consumer of the
> metadata, but I'm not sure I'd make that argument with much vigour ;-)
> 
> Personally, I think its inclusion in the profile is anomalous and I'm in
> favour of removing it: if implementers of collection description
> services want a logo/brand/thumbnail/whatever-they-want-to-call then
> they can include one in their own application profile, but it's not
> (IMHO) a property that is "core" to the functional requirements we set
> out to address.
> 
> Pete
>