[Zope-CMF] Metadata & Tool Questions

Doyon, Jean-Francois jdoyon at NRCan.gc.ca
Tue Oct 31 14:51:32 EST 2006


Hello,

The organization I work for has stringent metadata requirements, and as such I am now focusing my attention on metadata support in Zope and the CMF.

(Zope 2.10, CMF 2.0.0)

A few questions:

1) Are there GenericSetup import/export scripts out there for the metadata tool? I need to add elements and controlled vocabularies.

2) Some DC elements support the idea of schemes for specifying controlled vocabularies (notably the Subject), has anyone implemented functionality supporting this in their CMF?  Has there been discussion on the topic?

3) The policies defined in the metadata tool don't seem to be enforced in the Dublin Core implementation.  Any great reason?  Otherwise, I'm going to try tying specific schema implementations (Such as DCMI, though I have others) into the tool, for actual policy enforcement.

Right now it's looking like my end goal is:

1) GenericSetup-driven tool configuration, for per site metadata policy definitions.

2) Extension beyond DCMI

3) Support many possible vocabularies through scheme support for a given element policy.

3) Support remote vocabularies through web services/xml files.

4) Tie schema implementation such as DublinCoreImpl into the policy tool for enforcement.

This is a fair amount of work, so before I embark upon it, I figured I'd see who's done/thought what out there along those lines ...

Thanks,

Jean-François Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support / Spécialiste de dèveloppements internet et soutien technique
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing/Centre Canadien de télédétection
Natural Resources Canada/Ressources Naturelles Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Tel./Tél.: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410


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