Preferred by who? :)
Preference in these cases will depend on local technology
environments for processing XML, anticipated
use/reuse of the material, and a host of other local, contextualizing
factors. One size doesn't fit all.
On May 9, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Tim Au Yeung wrote:
> We're reviewing our implementation of our digitized books store and
> I just wanted to poll to the community:
>
> What do you think is the preferred representation of a digitized
> book where the composition is primarily of image-based pages -- a
> single large METS document covering all of the file pointers to the
> various images and a series of dmdSecs for descriptive information
> on the book, the chapters and the pages or a series of METS
> documents with the top-level book METS document containing the
> primary metadata and structMap but no file pointers and individual
> chapter and page METS documents containing corresponding file
> pointers and descriptive metadata related to that page or chapter?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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> Tim Au Yeung
> Manager, Digital Object Repository Technology
> Libraries and Cultural Resources
> University of Calgary
> (403) 220-8975
> ytau(at)ucalgary(dot)ca
Jerome McDonough, Asst. Professor
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel Street, Room 202
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 244-5916
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