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

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Feb 20, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Morbus Iff wrote:

> Would that work for you?

If I understand what you are saying, it is analogous to how MODS deals 
with locations:

<location>
    <physicalLocation>whatever</physicalLocation>
</location>

<location>
    <url 
dateLastAccessed="2003-10-21">http://www.example.net/test.xml</url>
</location>

So if you were to represent your video shelf in XML, it might well be:

<location>
    <physicalLocation type="shelf">whatever</physicalLocation>
</location>

Is that right?  (Note, though: MODS doesn't actually have such an 
attribute, but it does have "authority" and "displayLabel", which could 
be used for this sort of thing)

> >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.

Which is a problem in the real world.  Clearly the FRBR is a 
meta-model; it solely defines broad structures.  But implementations 
need to sort out these details.  I'm not exactly sure how to deal with 
this, but I get the feeling there's an elegant way to do just that.

Gotta go...

Bruce