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>>>> [log in to unmask] 1-12-04 12:21:29 >>>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:18:54 +0000
>> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> >> I foresee a situation in which we use a micture of record schemas
in
>> >> a single database. Some records have both a brief and full
>> >> specific full record schema.  These schemas can't be specified
in
>> >> explain
>> >
>> > Why not?
>>
>> You can't specify record schemas per record in explain, but you can
of
>> course specify the record schemas themselves there, even if they're
not
>> applicable to all records.
>
>Gotcha.
>
>> If you want to specify which recordSchemas can be used to with a
specific
>> record, then you would indeed need to have an extraRecordData
section.
>
>... but in order to get the extraRecordData, you need to retrieve the
>record, and to do that you need to get it in some specific format ...
>

Yes, therefor brief records will always be Dublin Core, but the full
records may be bibliographic records, Zthes records, EAC records, EAD
records etc.

Theo