Re: EDUML v0.3

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Bruno Vernier wrote:
> 
> <--! library catalog --------------------------------------------->
> 
> <edu:item id="resource-id">
>   <title>resource title</title>
>   <author> author 1 </author>
>   <author> author 2 </author>
>   <subtitle> section 1 </subtitle>
>   <subtitle> section 2 </subtitle>
>   <dewey> dewey code </dewey>
>   <date> date </date>
>   <cost> $ </cost>
>   <isbn> 123456789 </isbn>
>   <pub> publisher </pub>
>   <notes> notes </notes>

> 4. Please send in proposed structural corrections, or renaming of tags or
>    suggest completely different XML proposals for education.  I suggest we
>    check our existing admin and educational software export fields to make
>    sure the important ones are included here.
> 
I have a quibble about this data structure.  Not all libraries use the
Dewey Decimal System for cataloging their books.  We use the Library of
Congress system here at Bloomsburg.  I wouldn't be surprised it
libraries in other countries use still other systems.  I propose
something like this:

<cataloging_system> DDS, LOC, some other system </cataloging_system>
  <catalog_code> code in specified system </catalog_code>

Actually, the <cataloging_system> tag should probably go in an
<edu:library id="library name"> container which hasn't yet been
specified but which should probably be similar to <edu:school>.  Then
each item would just have the <catalog_code> tag.

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