User:Inga/container tocs

Resources available about containers and tocs:

• ESciDoc_Services:core_services shortly describes the Container Handler service and introduces the terms "Container", "TableOfContents" and "StructuralMap"
• ESciDoc Container Toc‎. This document introduces a TOC representation based on RSS 1.0 which is probably no longer in consideration. The Questions & Discussion section may be of further interest.

Open Questions:

• SciDoc Container Toc‎ states "Grouping of direct members is not necessary; a hierarchical structure is build by container resources wich are linked as members." -> isn't the toc something like a grouping?
• SciDoc Container Toc‎ states "The only reason to provide more than one TOC for a container resource would be to have different selections of the container resource members. It is assumed that there is no use case for different selections of members of one single container.

Assumptions & :

• Container members are independent from their container, thus each item/container can be member of n containers.
  

-> The requirement that non-editors

• The TOC is an optional, but integral component/member of the container
  ->Changes in the toc object should version the container object

Todos:

• Synchronizing terms and definitions for
  • container
  • table of contents/tableOfContents/TOC
  • StructuralMap - if a structural map is only a "flat" list of item reference we may consider to use the METS term

Table of Contents

Really Simple Syndication

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