[Geotools-devel] Re: Chris comments on the next great idea ...

[Chris H. <ch...@op...>]

Sounds fine to me.  Dont we already have metadata classes though?  I have 
never really looked into them.  I am fine with most any metadata ideas, I 
only get prickly when you start coming in to datastore land.  Also, check 
out the geonetwork open source codebase.  I have not looked at their 
metadata code, but they do z39.50 and metadata editing, and I have been 
talking to them about combining both of our 2.0s into a pluggable 
framework, using their metadata editing, catalog and wms client (intermap) 
stuff.  Would be nice to integrate their core models at the geotools 
level.

Chris

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Hi Chris wanted to bounce an idea off you:
> 
>  From conversation with James:
> - single metadata class, a subset, just to get the metadata ball rolling
> - requirements from udig: name, title, icon and so on ...
> - dublin core names
> - don't allow multiplicity like dublin core (ie more then one name)
> - use InternationalString
> 
> Jody
> 
> > Jody Garnett: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-376
> > jrmacgill: ok, thats a good bug to work from
> > Jody Garnett: And a good case for metadata - in the comment.
> > Jody Garnett: I really would not want to pass handles through out the 
> > whole system.
> > jrmacgill: would be bad.
> > jrmacgill: so how hard to work up a meta data solution?
> > Jody Garnett: Well I tried back in Oct
> > Jody Garnett: But it was mixed in w/ too many other changes that 
> > scared people.
> > Jody Garnett: We are keeping the information we need for udig around, 
> > this is a much smaller problem them full standards based metadata support.
> > Jody Garnett: And name, title, icon and so on made the cut for each 
> > FeatureSource.
> > Jody Garnett: When we get into FeatureType land I tread a bit more 
> > carefully, their are formal standards after all.
> > Jody Garnett: I am really tempted to go with single metadata class, 
> > using the Dublin core names. And not allowing multiplicity like the 
> > dublin core does.
> > Jody Garnett: (they let you have multiple name fields)
> > Jody Garnett: Instead I would let each field be an "InternationalString"
> > Jody Garnett: And see what happens
> > jrmacgill: sounds good to me
> > jrmacgill: but I'm no expert
> > Jody Garnett: Should probably send this off to chris - it was the 
> > "idea" he was looking for after all.
> > Jody Garnett: May want to wait for David to come back with fresh 
> > knowledge of ebRIM and other catalog stuff.
> 
> 

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