Hello, Gill -- We've done quite a bit of work here at UW Madison with using content models to model complex objects. We've taken a hybrid approach: we model the objects using an atomistic approach in Fedora, use RELS-EXT to express relations between objects; but when it comes time for applications to render the objects, we have a disseminator that creates a METS serialization of the object and all its component pieces.
I second Adam's recommendation: understanding the Content Model Architecture is key to understanding Fedora. We made some materials available that demonstrate how we use Content Models to create and navigate complex objects: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DEV/University+of+Wisconsin+Digital+Collections+Center+-+Complex+Content+models I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. This past month we've made the first steps towards implementing and testing generic content models for structured text objects (pamphlets, books, journals, conference proceedings, etc.); early results look promising. -- Scott [email protected] wrote: > A friendly caution: if you're going to use Fedora idiomatically and well, you > will certainly need to familiarize yourself with the CMA. It's one of the > really innovative tools that distinguishes Fedora from most other repository > software. > > In regards to the question of structural metadata, folks have developed many > ways to get the job done, including METS datastreams. At our institution, > we're currently moving away from structural information in XML datastreams > towards using RDF linkages between the objects involved in a structure. We > find this more fluid, less verbose, and with the use of the Resource Index, > easier to utilize for such purposes as constructing presentations. > > --- > A. Soroka > Digital Research and Scholarship R & D > the University of Virginia Library > > > > On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Hamilton, Gill wrote: > >> Hi again everyone >> >> More newbie questions …. >> >> Today I am thinking about ingest of complex objects, specifically digitised >> books. Obviously, to “reconstruct” a digitised book at point of >> dissemination both structural and sequencing data needs to be recorded so >> tools like page-turners can work. So I’m wondering how the structural >> information might be recorded in Fedora and how others approached this. >> >> My thinking so far goes something like this …… >> I’ve been trained in METS and I realise that I could have a METS datastream >> that could be used to carry all the structural information (I’ve attached >> two examples of different approaches I’ve been thinking about) but I don’t >> know if this is a good / workable / wise approach. Or should I be using >> Content Architecture Models (which I have to confess I don’t really >> understand … yet) to carry structure info? >> >> Confused as every >> Best wishes >> Gill >> PS Yesterday we successfully ran an automated mass test ingest of 200 simple >> objects. We couldn’t have done it without help from the Commons. 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