Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Better internationalization support

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Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> > From: Dan Mueth <da...@ea...>
> >
> > So, we would have:
> >
> > urn:x-omf1:organization:group:name:version:language:format
> >
> > where organization will normally be a domain and group is whatever the
> > coordinators for that domain choose (package, project, etc.)
> 
> I seem to have missed the introduction of :group: in
> the URN.  Is that necessary to establishing a document
> "name" part?  Or is it part of the metadata (in which case
> shouldn't it be in the OMF metadata elements)?

Oh, this was me. I just thought that for a large organization we might
want to have another level between organization and document. Obvious
values for this are project or package name.

[snip]

> I would propose instead using the OMF <relation> element,
> with its url attribute pointing to a series ID.  By that I
> mean define a seriesID using uuidgen as Dan suggests.  Then
> the OMF metadata for each document includes
> 
> <relation url="thisseriesUUID" status="omf-series-id"/>
> 
> This defines a relationship between this document and the
> series of which it is a part.  Then you could query an OMF
> metadata collection to select all documents that share the
> same relation element.  From that you could select specific
> alternate version/language/format documents.
> 
> Would this be a correct usage of the <relation> element?
> Would it meet the needs of a seriesID?

I looked at the definition of the <relation> element and it didnt seem
very obvious if it is ok, but I think we could use it like the above.

Laszlo