> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Denenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:47 PM
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> Subject: Re: indexes and masking
> And take dc.titleWord, for example.   Certainly there is no
> prescribed use
> attribute (since there never has been agreement on a Z39.50
> use attribute for dc
> elements). So this means that one server supporting
> dc.titleWord could say that
> it corresponds to bib-1 type= use, value 4 another to bib-1
> type=use, value
> 1097, and another XD type=accessPoint value =1.  Right?

Absolutely not!  Someone is going to define the list of attributes that
constitute a DC Title.  My guess is that we will be the ones that do that
and I personally am reluctant to step on the DC folk's toes.  Which is why
you, Ray, volunteered to nail down the attributes for DC indexes.


> And if we say that  indexes are defined in terms of
> attributes, then which
> attributes? Use and structure? (We've decided that for
> example truncation would
> be represented within the cql syntax) and if those two, does
> that lock us into
> bib-1?

We get to pick.  I'd suggest that it be the new attribute architecture.
Again, the conversations that led up to the new architecture were extremely
valuable in understanding the concept of an index.

Ralph