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A collection of scripts to prepare seed data (metadata, maps) for the maphub portal
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Is it possible to reverse engineer loc collections from map metadata? #2

Closed behas closed 12 years ago

behas commented 12 years ago

In the current maphub code we implement the concept of "collections", a map belongs to one or more maphub collections (similar to the concept of "sets" in flickr). The question is now, whether or not it is possible to reverse-engineer the LoC collection assignments (see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/) from the harvested metadata.

shionguha commented 12 years ago

So, to just clarify this:

Maphub: Can 1 map belong to one or more collections? Are these collections defined by the user or generated by the code?

LOC: 1 map can belong to one or more collections. Can we map every map downloaded from LOC (along with the harvested metadata) and set their collections to the collections of that particular map on maphub as well?

behas commented 12 years ago

In Maphub one map can belong to 0 or more collections. If possible, we want to mirror loc collections in Maphub and auto-generate map/collection assignments. But for this, we somehow need to parse the collection identifier from a metadata record.