Thomas,
>I’m a fan of storing the MD directly with the object data. That makes the
handling of the whole thing much easier and all the common repositories
Thomas,
>I’m a fan of storing the MD directly with the object data. That makes the
handling of the whole thing much easier and all the common repositories
today are also working in this way: the MD is strored together with the
object data in a thing called “Digital Object” (having Fedora, DSpace in
mind).
I think of having MD as part of the object data as consistent with an RDF
type approach which embeds descriptive relations as part of the data. This
can happen as the raw data is processed say from sensors.
But i think that we may have to consider some MD as not local to the data
as we think of other data circumstances.
There is often subsequent annotation to data and such that have to get
added and there is provenance information that gets “linked” to it. A
linking approach is intrinsic to the Semantic Web, for example, and I tend
not to think of this as not stored together with the data. In a linked
world people will be pointing to each other’s data and MD and defining the
relation of those links
Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Zastrow

wrote: