At 09:42 AM 7/30/2001 -0400, Ray Denenberg wrote:
>MacKenzie wrote:
>
> > I guess we could
> > discuss making the ID attribute of the root metsType element "required"
>
>I think an identifer element would need to be added. I don't think an
>attribute is
>going to help, required or not. However I don't think it needs to be
>required.....
I would note that you are basically free to do whatever you want within the
descriptive metadata portions of a METS document, including putting in
as many identifiers as you want. How those get mapped/used within the
context of a particular application (like OAI harvesting) would be something
the institution creating the METS document would need to decide for themselves.
Jerome McDonough
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