Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI) 1.2

Introduction

The goal of the Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI) specification...

Terminology

The key words MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC2119.

Glossary

CLARIN-FCS, FCS

CLARIN federated content search, an interface specification to allow searching within resource content of repositories.

PID

A Persistent identifier is a long-lasting reference to a digital object.

Normative References

RFC2119

Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, IETF RFC 2119, March 1997,
​http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

XML-Namespaces

Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition), W3C, 8 December 2009,
​http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/

Non-Normative References

RFC3023

XML Media Types, IETF RFC 3023, January 2001,
​http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt

Typographic and XML Namespace conventions

The following typographic conventions for XML fragments will be used throughout this specification:

• <prefix:Element>
  An XML element with the Generic Identifier Element that is bound to an XML namespace denoted by the prefix prefix.
• @attr
  An XML attribute with the name attr
• string
  The literal string must be used either as element content or attribute value.

The following XML namespace names and prefixes are used throughout this specification. The column "Recommended Syntax" indicates which syntax variant SHOULD be used by the Endpoint to serialize the XML response.

Prefix	Namespace Name	Comment	Recommended Syntax
cmd	http://clarin.eu/cmd	CMDI instance	prefixed

CMDI Component Metadata Model

CMDI Component and Profile Specification Level

CMDI Instance Level

Normative Appendix

Non-normative Appendix