Re: [libdb-develop] Don't Look At This Demo

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

 >This raises a point: you're current UI works for videos on a shelf, but
 >I don't think it does for my examples (where the location is more fine
 >grained).  If I store an an online newspaper article record, I need to
 >have the complete uri, along with a date accessed.

Yeah, the current focus of LibDB is physical materials. I haven't
given digital material much thought, but you could do the following
in the current system and it'd work well enough (in fact, I'm jotting
down a note to include "URI" as a default annotation):

  * define a location called "Online" (or some such). locations
    are solely relationships: besides describing a location type,
    you can't add *per-item* metadata to them. but...

  * define an annotation called "URI". annotations are defined
    as relationships too, but you can add as many strings per
    annotation type per item as you want. they have nothing to
    do with locations, so ultimately, you could leave the location
    of an item blank, and just use the "URI" annotation.

With the above, you could have:

  Location Type: Online
  Annotation Type: URI

  Title: Online Newspaper Record
  Location: [Location Type: Online; no value, relationship only.]
  Annotation: [Annotation Type: URI; Value: "http://www.demo.com/"]
  Annotation: [Annotation Type: URI; Value: "http://www2.demo.com/"]
  Annotation: [Annotation Type: URI; Value: "http://bak.offsite.com/"]

Would that work for you?

 >So what is a location? Say I want to store a bunch of records from an
 >archival collection. So: ABC Archive, Collection X, Box 23, Folder 324
 >How does this fit in the model?

 From an "FRBR model" standpoint, it really doesn't. FRBR mentions that
an item is located somewhere, but it doesn't set out to conceptualize
"location" as anything but a relationship/attribute.


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