Hi Bruce,
On 14-Sep-2005 at 14:50 -0400 Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> > However, could there be a solution where both formats go hand in
> > hand together and where OOo would simply accept both formats -- no
> > matter how it stores it's stuff internally?
> If we do decide on something other than MODS, then we will support MODS
> as well in some form. I will write conversion code between the two if
> necessary, talk to people like Chris Putnam about supporting it too, etc.
Great, sounds good. Thanks for the clarification!
If you've got any pointers to introductory material about
PRISM/RDF, I'd appreciate them.
> The other issue is that there are two features I've been asking for in
> MODS for awhile now (embedded content like mathml in titles and
> abstracts and multiple names for a person to support international
> scholars), with no luck. This leaves me uneasy with trusting our fate
> with a large organization that represents a different community of users
> than us.
I see. And I understand that all three requests are necessary requirements
for some scientific communities.
> Finally, technically speaking, MODS is really rich and expressive, but
> it's also loose. If I was to prefer an alternative, it would be a much
> tighter one, and so easier for developers to work with.
Yes, in this case I know what you're talking about. :-)
And I'm sure the complexity of MODS is one of the main reasons why
MODS hasn't found more adoption among (PHP) developers of the
bibliophile community.
The same could be said for CQL, btw. At least what concerns PHP
developers. It would be great if we could find someone who'd be
willing to develop (or finance the development) of a good PHP CQL
parser. This would greatly ease the implementation of standards
like SRU/SRW+CQL for PHP developers and would enable them to
actually start with real inter-application communication...
Plus, these developers would be all ready to support OOo when its
new bibliographic feature set is out. (at least if I understood you
correctly that communication with OOo will be via HTTP using stuff
like SRU/SRW+CQL, right?)
> Remember, I spent a long time writing software dependent on MODS
> too, so I'm not going to be stupid about this!
:-) Well said.
Thanks & regards, Matthias
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Matthias Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.extracts.de
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