Hi All,
Apologies for not explaining what I meant by MODS terms not
being consistent with DC practice. But I think others have
explained it for me :)
Another (more simplistic) point about using the MODS terms, in
particular mods:location.
Looking at the MODS XML schema, mods:location has 2 sub-
elements, according to the hierarchical XML model:
physicalLocation and url. They are both optional and can occur
many times (though physicalLocations must precede urls). Thus if
the sub-elements were promoted to 'first class' elements (ie could
be used without the surrounding <mods:location> tags) (and
assuming it were possible to sort out the definition in RDF terms)
you would end up with 2 location properties rather than a single
one.
I understood that mods:location was included in the DC-Lib AP so
that either a physical location or a digital location (or both) could be
captured within the same property, not to have separate properties.
The situation at the moment is that you need to write:
<mods:location>
<mods:physicalLocation>My Library</mods:physicalLocation>
</mods:location>
for a physical location and:
<mods:location>
<mods:url>http://example.com/mylibrary.</mods:url>
</mosd:location>
for a digital location
[<mods:location>My Library</mods:location> is wrong according
to the schema.]
Whereas if there were a DCMI property for location, like all DC
properties, it's value could be represented by either a URL or a text
string.
It also seems to me that a location property must bear some
similarity to that needed but not yet decided by the Collection
Description AP (isAvailableAt, isLocatedAt?).
As for 'edition', this sounds akin to my long-lamented 'version'
property :). But, joking aside, I do think there is a general need for
a DCMI edition/version property (I seem to remember a question on
askDCMI not long ago).
Ann
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