Hello, all --
Just to clarify, the <div> TYPE attribute was already there in MOA2 (and,
yes, we like it). What Harvard had requested was a FEATURE attribute and a
place to put native numbering where it would not be buried in the LABEL
with, potentially, other information.
--Robin
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Dick Thaxter wrote:
> Rick,
>
> My notes from the Valentine's Day meeting in NYC said that Harvard
> requested a "TYPE" attribute for <div>. I remember agreeing verbally and
> seeing the kinds of uses you suggest for it. In building our <div> trees
> for complex multimedia objects, LC is following a controlled vocabulary
> but putting the text into the div LABEL. So far that's working OK but
> most of our subobjects have generic names that are essentially
> 'types'--container, disc side, booklet. If we wanted to describe
> something that had both a generic description--say, 'booklet' as well as
> a title--say, "Complete Discography of Spinal Tap"--I think lumping it all
> into a LABEL attribute is not as helpful it might be to give booklet as
> the type and the title as the label.
>
>
> Dick Thaxter
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Rick Beaubien wrote:
>
> > When comparing the METS schema with the MOA2.DTD recently, I realized that
> > while the MOA2 DTD provides for a TYPE attribute in <div> elements, there
> > is currently no corresponding attribute for "divType" elements in METS. I
> > would like to request that an optional "TYPE" attribute be added to the
> > attribute list for "divType" elements. The TYPE attribute would provide a
> > means for specifying the category to which to which a division of an object
> > belongs and of clarifying its role within the hierarchy of an object as a
> > whole. For example, in the case of a book the root div would be of TYPE
> > "book"; under this there might be <div>s of TYPE "chapter" and under these,
> > <div>s of TYPE "page". In the case of a photoalbum, the sequence of div
> > TYPEs might be: photoalbum, page, photo, photodetail.
> >
> > I think that the div TYPE could be an important basis for providing for
> > certain type of functionality in tools that work either directly or
> > indirectly off of METS objects. Granted, my MOA2 object navigation tools
> > currently make fairly minor uses of the div TYPE attribute. For example,
> > the div TYPE is the basis for selecting a style sheet for the presentation
> > of the descriptive metadata associated with a div. And the TYPE attribute
> > provides a fallback to the LABEL attribute for labeling a div in the
> > document "table of contents" when no LABEL is present.
> >
> > But more importantly, more sophisticated tools in the future could
> > conceivably put the TYPE attribute to much more sophisticated uses. For
> > example, a viewer tool might want to make certain image manipulation
> > functions available for divs of TYPE "photo" in a photoalbum; or it might
> > want to provide indexed access to the divs of TYPE "entry" in a diary.
> >
> > Of course, the usefulness of a div TYPE attribute will hinge on there being
> > some vocabulary control. While this may be difficult to implement across
> > institutional boundaries, at least within an institution enough control to
> > make a div TYPE attribute functionally useful should be possible.
> >
> > Rick Beaubien
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Rick Beaubien
> >
> > Software Engineer: Research and Development
> > Library Systems Office
> > Rm 386 Doe Library
> > University of California
> > Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
> > 510-643-9776
> >
>
>
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