On Oct 20, 2005, at 5:12 AM, Richard Davis wrote: > The redesign of the PREMIS XML Schema (not the PREMIS DD) is necessary > and pressing because it is currently a naïve implementation that / > only/ > supports the validation of standalone PREMIS records. The better > approach would be a separate library of PREMIS typedefs, that can be > used, refined and extended not only in the core PREMIS.xsd, but > also by > developers of repository-specific PREMIS systems, and other hybrid > APs. > This approach will also reduce the risk of the sort of type-clash that > invalidated the latest draft of 1.1. No argument there at all. 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 [log in to unmask]