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

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

 >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/"]

Replace "annotation" with "identifier". URIs are identifiers.


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