StorageRecordDescription

Introduction

Every collection is stored in an XML record as the core metadata.

This master record will look like the sample below, which has five unique collections inside it.

• One, which is identified as foo, is the root collection of the entire system. Everything is under this collection. It has one collection located at /collection/bob
• The second collection, identified as bob, is the core metadata describing "The Bob Publication", which has one issue that belongs to it and is located at /collection/bob-bar.
• The third collection, identified as bob-bar, is a particular issue in the "The Bob Publication". It has a related proxy metadata located at /collection/bob-bar-mods and has a byte stream that is part of the collection located at http://digcollretriver.lib.uchicago.edu/foo-bob-bar/ocr.
• The fourth collection, identified as bob-bar-mods, is a proxy metadata for the core metadata identified as bob-bar.
• The fifth colletion, identified as bob-bar-item1 is a leaf collection. A leaf is a computer science term used in graph theory: it is a fancy way of saying there is nothing below this collection and if this was a road here is a big dead-end sign. This collection has three parts, all of which are URLs pointing to byte streams. It is also designated as part of the bob-bar collection.

<collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>foo</dc:identifier>
        <dc:title>Root Collection</dc:title>
        <dc:description>This is is the root of the metadata storage ssytem.</dc:description>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collecton/bob</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:type>core</dc:type>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>bob</dc:identifier>
        <dc:title>The Bob Publication</dc:title>
        <dc:description>The Foo Publication was a student-run news e-zine about punk rock published from 1800-1820. It is considered by punk rock scholars to the be precursor to the punk rock movement of the 1980s. It was distributed by telegraph to approximately two hundred devoted punk rock fans at its peak circulation in 1810.</dc:description>
        <dc:date>1800</dc:date>
        <dc:date>1820</dc:date>
        <dc:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/foo</dc:hasPartOf>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/bob-bar</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:type>core</dc:type>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>bob-bar</dc:identifier>
        <dc:title>Bob-Bar issue from the Foo Collection</dc:title>
        <dc:date>1805-02</dc:date>
        <dc:description>This is one issue from the Bob Publication. It has a proxy metadata "bob-bar-mods" that was created by the Library of Good Vibes as part of a collaborative digitization effort with the university library in 1956. It also has an OCR data byte stream (in the Internet Archive Bookreader format) for the entire issue.</dc:description>
        <dc:subject>tea kettles</dc:subject>
        <dc:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/bob</dc:hasPartOf>
        <dc:relation xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/bob-bar-mods</dc:relation>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URL">http://digcollretriever.lib.uchicago.edu/foo-bob-bar/ocr</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:type>core</dc:type>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>bob-bar-mods</dc:identifier>
        <dc:title>a MODS proxy metadata for the foo-bob-bar issue in the foo collection. It was created </dc:title>
        <dc:description>33sdjkflajsdfkljasdkflasjkdflasieoruwerjkl==</dc:description>
        <dc:relation xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/bob-bar</dc:relation>
        <dc:type>proxy</dc:type>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>bob-bar-item1</dc:identifier>
        <dc:title>Page Item1 from Bob-Bar Issue of Foo Collection</dc:title>
        <dc:description>This is page 1 of the Bob-Bar issue. It has a tiff file, an alto file and a jpeg file which is a derivative of the tiff file.</dc:description>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URL">http://example.com/foo.tiff</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URL">http://example.com/bar.alto</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URL">http://example.com/bar.jpeg</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/bob-bar</dc:relation>
        <dc:type>core</dc:type>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>boo</dc:identifier>
        <dc:title>The Boo Collection of Manuscripts from the Land of Sleepy Time Tea</dc:title>
        <dc:description>The Boo Collection is a set of manuscripts created by monks of the Sleepy Time Tea temple in the pre-herbal era. This is approximately 100 BCE through to 150 BCE.</dc:description>
        <dc:date>100 BCE</dc:date>
        <dc:date>150 BCE</dc:date>
        <dc:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/foo</dc:isPartOf>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>boo-item1</dc:identifier>
        <dc:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/boo</dc:isPartOf>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URL">http://examle.com/foo.tiff</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:hasPart xsi:type="dcterms:URL">http://examle.com/foo.gif</dc:hasPart>
        <dc:relation xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/boo-item1-tei</dc:relation>
        <dc:type>core</dc:type>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <dc:identifier>boo-item1-tei</dc:identifier>
        <dc:relation xsi:type="dcterms:URI">/collection/boo-item1</dc:relation>
        <dc:description>38skjldfjaksl3905823asjdfklas3==</dc:description>
        <dc:type>proxy</dc:type>
    </collection>
</collecton>