CMDI best practice guide

Goal of this document: giving a good insight in the process of metadata modelling with CMDI.

Some ideas for sections

how to choose components and profiles

reference to the CmdiRecommendedComponents (list needs to be double-checked and updated)

quality check-list

• is the CMDI file schema-valid?
• are the header fields complete?
  • is there a uniqe MdSelfLink?
  • is there an MdCollectionDisplayName?
• does it contain ResourceProxy elements?
  • is there a link to a LandingPage when available?
  • is there an indication of the mime type?
• is the file too big to be useful? (> suggest higher granularity)
• what is the information entropy? (> lots of very similar files might be an indication of a suboptimal modelling)
• ...