I'm working on a content management database based on the Dublin Core
and the Media Annotation Initiative. Much of the whole mode of discourse
and terms translate well into a database scheme but when the discourse
starts to talking about fine tuning and switches to an RDF framework it
is difficult to grok in terms of translating some of the principles into
actual table-field structures in a PostGreSQL dbase. the Dubline Core
seems in some respects a very abstract realm... but things are different
where rubber hits the road.
I've looked pretty closely at the databases generated by XOOPS, Drupal
and Word Press and frankly, they are freaky scary. I see a hodge podge
of strategies, each differing -- depends on whose design the module
whose tables you are looking at. That's why I want to stay with Dublin
Core where the "human readability" principle is kept in the forefront of
design. I'm pretty close to designing a schema that I think can contain
pretty much all the metadata for any video, text or audio, translations
pamphlets etc. FAQ that we have. I supposed we are re-inventing the
wheel a bit, but in the end we will get something that is a good match
for our needs and we will not be boxed into framework of a monster CMS
that we cannot customize without spending huge $ on PHP-module
consultants... (been there, done that, nightmare)
Metadata for a video or a sound file or an image is simple enough....
The part of the data base I'm unable to finish of is that which deals
with text fragments. I think I posted this before on this list but got
no responses. If anyone knows what would be the best list or group I
should go to, to get help, let me know. What I'm interested in should be
pretty standard stuff in the world of academia: e.g. if you want a data
base to contain the most atomic elements of a text resource (one record
for every single verse of every single poem from a book where the poems
are divided into chapters and the chapters into sections and the
sections into parts of a book, and the book is one volume in a
series...) what is the best schema which allows you to query the data
base to re-aggregate all those elements into it's original source
document, run time (or on a cron or periodically post modifications)
AND OR what other approaches might better serve the end game (be able
to query for a single verse with complete citation; be able to query for
an entire poem with citation; be able to query for a complete chapter of
poems with a citation ... etc.) I have some solutions in mind, and I
may just proceed with those, and refactor later if something better
comes along...but I would love to hear from some experts and seem some
existing models.
Any ideas of where to go looking for mangos?
Sivakatirswami
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