Karen,
I don't know enough to say what might be good for the entire community
-- but for myself, if I'm generating METS documents that validate to,
say, v 1.3, I'd like to state have as the schemaLocation
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd and not
http://www.loc.gov/METS/. I don't want changes in the actual schema
document located at http://www.loc.gov/METS/ to cause validation
problems for me later on.
I'd be happy to have
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd to point to the 1.3
schema now (because 1.3 is the current spec) and not wait until 1.3 is a
legacy version. I don't see any harm in having that happen. Further
elaborations could help me , but I've not thought about them.
-Raymond
Karen Coyle wrote:
>Raymond,
>
>Are you just referring to the URLs for the schemas, or should this also
>apply to the identifier? i.e. should both of these indicate a version,
>or just the URL to the schema?:
>
>xmlns:METS = "http://www.loc.gov/METS/"
>xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.loc.gov/METS/
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd"
>
>I notice that MODS includes a version number in its identifier as well
>as the schema location, which seems to me to be a good idea. That brings
>up the issue of legacy data (i.e. METS records already in circulation),
>but they would be identifiable due to their lack of a version -- which
>doesn't get you to the right version, but lets you know that it might
>not be the latest one.
>
>kc
>
>On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 11:42, Raymond Yee wrote:
>
>
>>I think that in addition to having the URL for the current version of
>>METS ( http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd) it would be useful to
>>have a working URL for the current version labelled by the version number.
>>That is, http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd should
>>lead to the 1.3 schema and not generate a 404 error, which it does
>>right now.
>>
>>http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version11/mets.xsd (for v1.1) and
>>http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version12/mets.xsd (for v1.2) work.
>>Presumably, when we move to version 1.4,
>>http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd will come into
>>existence.
>>
>>Is there a reason why
>>http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd will not exist
>>(presumably) until 1.4 becomes the official version? What do others think?
>>
>>-Raymond Yee
>>
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Interactive University Project Berkeley, CA 94720-3810
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