Is there a document that describes the GDM data model on the Web? A link to it would be helpful. Thanks, Mike
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Hans Fugal > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gdmxml] more thoughts on entering a source > > > So I guess the question becomes whether it is appropriate to do it this > way in gdmxml. Any opinions? > > <hans/> > > * Stan Mitchell [Tue, 9 Jul 2002 at 23:12 -0700] > <quote> > > Yes, it does seem that your suggestion reduces redundancy > > without sacrificing search capability. > > > > Hans Fugal wrote: > > > > >But then you have to store call-numbers possibly many times. For > > >example, a professional researcher would doubtless perform > many searches > > >in any particular US Census. For that Census the repository, > source, call > > >number and description would all be the same for every > repository-source > > >record. The only unique information in each record would be the > > >activity-id. Yet if we take out the activity-id from repository-source > > >we get rid of that redundancy. AFAICS there is no loss of > querying power > > >when we do so - search has all three keys, so if you want to know which > > >searches you did on a particular call-number, you only have to > query the > > >search table with the repository-id and source-id. Or am I still > > >missing something? > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gdmxml mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://fugal.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gdmxml > </quote> > > -- > "Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything > about it." > -- Mark Twain > > _______________________________________________ > gdmxml mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://fugal.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gdmxml > _______________________________________________ gdmxml mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fugal.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gdmxml
