[Tobias Weigel]

RDA PID Kernel Information VC – Aug 31 – notes

 

• Structural metadata: Is the KI in PID records the canonical/unique location for PID metadata? Suppose it is dangerous to *only* have it there

  • Leads to a normalization problem – the authoritative version may reside elsewhere.

  • So: Is PID record info just a cache for the structural metadata?

  • How are the other metadata categories covered?

  • Another argument against the KI in PID records as authoritative source is that this causes the (existing) permissions issues when others need to change PID records.

• Larry: difference between repositories and registries is merely one of function. Thus, combination into a single software (cordra) that can act as one or the other

  • Provide access to object vs. registering

  • Does not prescribe a specific viewpoint on digital object – metadata relations; fairly low level

• Granularity: proposition of Handles is that they can be assigned at lower level than DOI. does not preclude collection-building. The finest level we see is the DTR use of PIDs – assigning them to lowest level of things such as integers, units..

 

• DOI experience

  • Push for a consistent body of what comes back from a DOI

  • Reg agency push back: not a lot of metadata should be put in that was considered less useful

  • Profile: what kind of DOI was this? Enable a 2 step process.

    • Software for this built and worked, but did not catch up. Not necessary for RAs to do their business – 1-to-1 redirection was sufficient.

    • New push with LD, movie industry usage …

  • What was the content of the profiles?

    • There was to be no minimal set, there would be several

 

• Criteria for sorting out the profile contents:

  • Structural metadata perspective

  • Performance

  • Ulrichs notions: Workflow that ends with the decision-making, typing for yes-no-decisions – functional rather than semantic view

• Does the combination of these give an answer to: is an object FAIR?

• Can we make progress on these in the next weeks and put them up for comprehensive discussion at P10?

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