[tdwg-guid] TDWG LSID Resolver broken?
Richard Pyle
deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Fri Nov 30 14:01:31 CET 2007
> Is the bibliography trying to have a tree, e.g.: page -> article ->
journal
> If it is, then *gack*. The potential for confusion is pretty large --
> is Richard's metadata about the journal article or a page in the article,
> and how would I know?
I tend to agree with Rod on this -- but here's the thing: we want to know
whether the citation is a Chapter, or a book, or an article, or a page
anyway -- regardless of whether the citation is structured as a tree or as
concatenated text. My feeling is: why not have both? (i.e., as Roger's
vocab already has both, and whatever comes from the St. Louis meeting will,
I believe, have both). I wouldn't go more than one level up: give the
containing reference citation as a string (e.g., for book chapters, give the
full book citation as a string), and also provide a GUID link to that
containing/parent reference citation -- but don't give the full tree if
there is more than one level of "parent". That is, if there is a
grandparent, don't represent it via a GUID in the grandchild -- only
represent the parent as a GUID, and then the metadata for the parent can
itself include a link to the Grandparent.
I do believe we want to maintain the ability to walk up (and down) a
hierarchy (for a bunch of reasons). But at the same time, I agree with Rod
that we shouldn't expect the client to *have* to do so.
> I tried to investigate this further but the Wiki
>
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/OntDiscussPublicationCitationPublica
tionCitation
> is down.
Most of the commentary ended up here:
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/PublicationCitationLsidVoc
...but even this is moot,a s it was written before the St. Louis meeting. I
suggest we wait until the product of that meeting gets distributed, and then
attack that strawman, instead of Roger's strawman on the LSIDVocs site.
Rich
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