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Mandatory Manufacture info #33

Closed huberrob closed 3 years ago

huberrob commented 5 years ago

Manufacturer and manufacturerName now are mandatory in our schema. However this information is not always available. Further, it is not mandatory in SensorML 2.0 so there is a compatibility issue.

Possible Solutions: 1) Make Manufacturer info Optional 2) Provide a default entry like 'Not Given' or 'Unknown' (but it has to be discussed if this is confusing in comparison to solution 1)

RKrahl commented 5 years ago

I would suggest the second option. In fact, I would suggest to adopt the “Standard values for unknown information” from DataCite (see Appendix 3 in the DataCite 4.3 Metadata Schema Documentation) that may be used for any property if the value is not available for any reason.

These values include:

value meaning
:unal unallowed, supressed intentionally
:unap not applicable, makes no sense
:unas value unassigned (e.g., Untitled)
:unav value unavailable, possibly unknown
:unkn known to be unknown (e.g., Anonymous)
:none never had a value, never will
:tba to be assigned or announced later

and others.

This approach has the advantage that the issuer of the PID has at least the obligation to state that this value is not known and is not just forgotten to be filled in. And it also gives the opportunity to state why this value is not given.

amacario commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Technically no big deal to implement a couple of the values above as option in the frontend but hard to get the people to fill out this property later on if we set to "tba" all the mandatroy properties which are currently missing a value. The human factor again...

Ditto for property "instrument model"

amacario commented 5 years ago

And we have the issue that some of the sensors were indeed built in AWI's "Werkstatt" so that they do not have a registered manufacturer and model name.

RKrahl commented 5 years ago

The latter is not a problem. If the sensor is built by AWI's "Werkstatt", the manufacturer is AWI. We explicitly state in the definition of the Manufacturer property: “This may also be the owner for custom build instruments.”

RKrahl commented 3 years ago

I guess this has been settled by now. I suggest to close.

huberrob commented 3 years ago

I agree with you, this can be closed..

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