After about 5 weeks I'm finally getting back to this. I hope everyone else's minds are less clouded over than my own. :)
I have addressed all the elements of the evidence submodel to my liking with the exception of representation. I have a few questions for the members of the LWG out there, as well as anyone who understands the representation and representation-type elements. (and anyone else, as well!) REPRESENTATION -------------- source-id (FK) representation-type-id (FK) physical-file-code medium content (Text or multimedia) comments REPRESENTATION-TYPE ------------------- representation-type-id (PK) representation-type-name My questions are: - First, what is a REPRESENTATION in the context of the GDM? Specifically, how does it relate to a digital encoding and physical representation? Is a photograph in my file cabinet a REPRESENTATION or is that a SOURCE in and of itself? Or are representations only encodings of the source that can be stored and transmitted? Most of the rest of the questions stem from this one. - What is the difference between representation-type and medium? - Physical-file-code combined with a physical representation would seem to be just another source that should be documented as such. And a few comments: - "One REPRESENTATION is a manifestation of one SOURCE" - so I will nest representation in source in the xml format. - there are pre-existing standards for defining the location of things in 'cyberspace' and the type and encoding of the data: URIs and mime-types, respectively. I think it would be appropriate to bring those into play if appropriate. One consideration in doing this of course is that local URIs will only be valid on the local system (but then so would any way of citing a file on the local system). - When content is a text transcription, it may be very appropriate to use TEI for encoding the text. - When we wish to communicate an image or other binary format we could mime-encode it just as we do with email attachments. <hans/> -- "Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it." -- Mark Twain _______________________________________________ gdmxml mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fugal.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gdmxml