At 10:29 PM 4/23/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear meta2ers
>I am resending this message as I have received no responses to my earlier
>post
OK, I'll cast the first stone, even though I am not without sin. :-)
>>One concern I have with the Knight / Hamilton format is that by running
>>words together, it may reduce the chance of matches for searchers who do
>>not know about particular schemes. For example, would searching for
>>'thesis' find 'MastersThesis' ? This presumably depends on the design of
>>the search software. Other format options for a scheme would be:
>>1) 'Thesis.Masters'
>>2) 'Masters Thesis'
Good point. I would favor using approach 2, but that is a quick judgement,
not a well-considered technical opinion. It might be a good idea to revisit
Jon and Martin's list and come up with base types and modifiers, such as
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Masters Thesis
Doctoral Thesis
Message
Moderated message
Unmoderated message
Private Message
Article
Refereed Article
Draft Article
etc.
>>First cut list of EdNA values for a scheme for the field DC.Type
>>==============================================
>>organisation
>>orgunit
>>organisation.educational
>>organisation.parent
>>organisation.professional
>>individual
>>school.primary
>>school.secondary
>>vetprovider
>>aceprovider
>>university
>>project.research
>>project.curriculum
>>project.teachers
>>project.students
>>event
Um, I don't understand the relevance of any of the preceding values to
the "Type" field. Type is supposed to indicate the genre of the resource,
such as book, poem, thesis, map, screenplay, etc. I don't understand how
we are going to digitize a "university", "school", "project", or "event".
Some things, such as "organization info", "project report" or "event
schedule" might be extrapolated from the list above, but most of the list
seems inappropriate.
I don't know what a vetprovider or an aceprovider are. I assume vet and ace
are levels of schooling in Australia, but I could easily be wrong.
One other point, you need to provide some definitions of the resource
genre denoted by each term.
>>links
What are links? Is this a hypermedia version of a bibliography?
Perhaps just call it a bibliography?
>>report
OK
>>forum
>>forum.archive
What sort of resource genre is a forum? forum.archive looks more like a
legitimate resource, but I still don't know what to expect if I fetch
something like that. Do you mean something like an email list (e.g. the
meta2 list and archive)?
>>message
OK
>>course.offering
>>syllabus
>>curriculum
These appear reasonable. However, one of the critiques you raised about
Martin and Jon's list was that it was "too detailed for us in some areas".
I think the same critique applies here.
For the purposes of the EdNA project, you may well need to make such
distinctions. I suggest that you use a scheme=EdNA qualifier for
those items (although others on the list may have a different opinion :-)
Most of us might be happy enough with the "CourseMaterial" term from
Martin and Jon's list.
Regards,
Ron Daniel Jr. voice:+1 505 665 0597
Advanced Computing Lab fax:+1 505 665 4939
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Los Alamos National Lab http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel
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