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Jeff Young  
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 More options Aug 15 2008, 1:48 am
From: Jeff Young <jyoung.o...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:48:47 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Aug 15 2008 1:48 am
Subject: Aggregation/Resource Map relationship question
I'm trying to put together a UML class diagram for ORE, and I'm
puzzled by these statements in section 3.1 of the "ORE-User Guide -
Primer":

http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.9/primer.html#Aggregation

"An Aggregation does not have a representation..."
"the Aggregation URI A-1 must yield or lead to a Resource Map when
dereferenced."

Is this still the current thinking? If so, what's wrong with Resource
Maps being accepted as representations of the Aggregation?

I understand that a Resource Map is a description of an Aggregation
and not the Aggregation itself. This is true in the same sense that a
metadata record is not the same as a book. Nevertheless, it is fair to
say that a metadata record is a reasonable representation of a book.

If this was accepted, the questionable reference to an Aggregation
being a "non-information resource" could be dropped.

Jeff


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