Ok, please critique:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/metadata.html

(Lot's of handwaving here though, for example, what namespace or schema to
use for the metadata.  This assumes that the rec namespace is used.)

--Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Record Metadata Schema (was Re: "collection" context set)


> Ray Denenberg writes:
>  > From: "Mike Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>
>  > > Rob,
>  > >
>  > > It seems clear that what the world needs right now is not guidelines
>  > > on how to make an extension that does this, but specifications for an
>  > > actual extension that does what's needed.  Could you please rustle
>  > > something up?  I'm sure it would only take you a few minutes, and it
>  > > would (A) make Martin's life much easier; and (B) ensure that his
>  > > implementation can interoperate with those that follow.  (I can
easily
>  > > imagine adding support for this to Zebra.)
>  >
>  > I think we pretty much have it.   Rob said what to do in the response.
For
>  > the request, an extension that will work exists:
>  > http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/accept.html
>  >
>  > The identifier is:   info:srw/1/accept-1.0
>  >
>  >  For SRU, use the parameter 'x-info-1-accept'
...&x-info-1-accept=metadata
>
> Sounds good.  So can we please have a single page explaining how to do
> this?  If you'll make a first draft, I will be happy to critique it.
> (e.g. "Hey!  This sucks!")
>
> :-)
>
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