Talk:ESciDoc Application Profiles

Complex Types like

• Creator
  • the proposed data model in eSciDoc looks like this:
    • CreatorType can either be:
      • Person, which has the following properties:
        • Complete Name
        • Family Name
        • Given Name
        • Alternative Name
        • Person Title
        • Pseudonym
        • Organisation
        • Identifier
      • Organisation, with the following properties:
        • Oranisation Name
        • Address
        • Identifier
    • Creator Type has a further property:
      • Creator Role, which can be:
        • Author
        • Artist
        • Editor, ....

If we want the Application Profile to be Dublin-Core-Compliant, an issue with such complex types arises:
The DC Application Profile guidelines define Application Profiles as flat structures by allowing for relational attributes such as

• Refines
• Refined By
• Encoding Scheme For
• Has Encoding Scheme
• Similar To

One possible solution to the dilemma would look like:

• use "person" as an element that refines "creator" with an encoding scheme that defines its components (complete name, family name, ...)
• use "organisation" as an element that refines "creator" with a corresponding encoding scheme
• either
  • attach creatorRole as component of "person" and "organisation" with yet another encoding scheme (not sure whether or not nested encoding schemes are allowed)
  • or create an element "creatorRole" on the same level as "person" and "organisation" with a corresponding encoding scheme

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