On 07/18/2013 08:37 AM, Willem Ferguson wrote:
Hi!
[...]
> 3) A third step would be to create a lookup table so that users can
> locally rename metadata fields for their own collection. For instance, a
> particular user may perhaps like to rename the SDCMES 'Relation' tag to
> be 'Country' for his/her own collection.
One should definitely /not/ do that. If there is a tag like relation it
is defined to be relation and it has to have the meaning of a relation
and nothing else. If such tags are allowed, and in principle even
encouraged, to be misused to work around another shortcoming you loose
interoperability.
I've just converted some 10^5 datasets that used your approach
(sometimes quite heavily) and to spare you the details: this is hell and
you never get it entirely clean again.
The nice thing about "standard" is that it is defined to be a singular
not a plural ;)
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