Functional Requirements for the MICHAEL-EU Dublin Core Application Profile

Creator: MICHAEL Project
Date Issued: 2004-04-18
Identifier: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk//metadata/michael/michael-eu/funcreq/2004-04-18/
Replaces: Not applicable
Is Replaced By: Not applicable
Latest Version: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk//metadata/michael/michael-eu/funcreq/
Description of Document: This document presents a summary of the functional requirements to be supported by the MICHAEL-EU Dublin Core Application Profile (MICHAEL-EU DCAP), a DC Application Profile for use by data providers to the MICHAEL-EU presentation service.

Introduction

Note: This document presents a summary view of the application profile. For full details, see the full description of the MICHAEL-EU Dublin Core Application Profile [MICHEUDCAP].

This document is not a description of an XML format. There may be multiple bindings of this DCAP, to XML and to other syntaxes.

The MICHAEL-EU DCAP Data Model

Functional Requirements of the MICHAEL-EU DCAP

The MICHAEL-EU DCAP is designed so that metadata records constructed in accordance with this profile should support the following operations

Search

Digital Collection

Find Digital Collections by occurence of term in value string for:

  • Title
  • Temporal Coverage (period name)
  • Temporal Coverage (period start date/end date)
  • Subject (Keyword) and Subject (MICHAEL Vocab)
  • Subject (Keyword), Subject (MICHAEL Vocab), Culture, Famous Person, Famous Place, Famous Object, Famous Event
  • Famous people
  • Spatial Coverage (MICHAEL Vocab)
  • Legal Status
  • Digital Type

Institution (Agent)

Find Institution by occurence of term in value string for:

  • Institution Name
  • Institution Name, Alternate Name and Acronym
  • Jurisdiction
  • Institution Type

Physical Collection

Find Physical Collections by occurence of term in value string for:

  • Physical Type

Product-Service

Find Product-Service by occurence of term in value string for:

  • Title
  • Audience
  • Access Type
  • Legal Status

Project/Programme (Agent)

Find Project/Programme by occurence of term in value string for:

  • Title

(Collection only?) Description

Find (Collection only?) Descriptions by occurence of term in value string for:

  • Creation date
  • Publishing date

Browse/Group

Digital Collection

Group Digital Collections by values of

  • ?? Subject/Theme
  • ?? Time
  • ?? Type of material
  • ?? Where

Institution

Group Institutions by values of

Physical Collection

Group Physical Collections by values of

Product-Service

Group Product-Services by values of

Project

Group Projects by values of

  • Funding Programme

Filter/Select

Digital Collection

Filter Digital Collections by values of

  • Language
  • Spatial Coverage
  • Legal Status

Product-Service

Filter Product-Services by values of

  • Language
  • Audience
  • Legal Status
  • Access Conditions
  • Access Type
  • Accessibility

Display

Digital Collection

Result List
Full Display

For Digital Collection:

For each Product-Service that provides access to the Digital Collection:

For each Institution (Agent) which has responsibility for the Digital Collection or which created the Digital Collection:

For each Physical Collection of which the Digital Collection is a representation:

Product-Service

Result List
Full Display

For Product-Service:

For each Digital Collection to which the Product-Service provides access:

For each Institution (Agent) which has responsibility for the Product-Service or which created the Product-Service:

Institution (Agent)

Result List
Full Display

For Institution (Agent):

For each Digital Collection for which the Institution (Agent) has responsibility or which the Institution (Agent) created:

For each Physical Collection for which the Institution (Agent) has responsibility or which the Institution (Agent) created:

For each Product-Service for which the Institution (Agent) has responsibility or which the Institution (Agent) created:

For each Project-Programme to which the Institution (Agent) contributes:

Project/Programme

Result List
Full Display

For Project/Programme:

For each Digital Collection which the Project/Programme created:

References

[MICHDM]  MICHAEL Data Model Version 1.0, September 30 2005
http://www.michael-culture.org/documents/MICHAELDataModel_v1_0.pdf

[MICHEUDCAP]  MICHAEL-EU Dublin Core Application Profile
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/michael/michael-eu/dcap/

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