Note: this topic is part of the discussions on CMDI 1.2, see CMDI 1.2/Header/MdType.
Because the granularity of the existing CMDI files and collections varies a lot (from 1 CMDI = 1 large corpus to 1 CMDI file = single small textfile) it would be handy to indicate that certain CMDI descriptions are about a collection as a whole (e.g. the Corpus Spoken Dutch).
There are several possibilities to cope with this:
- An extra Header element could be introduced, say
<MdCollectionCoverage>collection</MdCollectionCoverage>
- pro: easy to interprete/understand
- Use the ResourceProxy? hierarchy or the optional IsPartOfList? element
- con: needs a lot of processing, not so robust
- The collection profile could be taken as a/the indication something is a collection:
- con: this could create too many collections to be usable (when used with deeply nested collections)
- Only those collections using a specific collection component could be marked as being a collection.
- con: idem as above
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