collection management discussion cintex subgroup meeting janet hylton [email protected] march, 1999
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March, 1999Page 2
Janet HyltonNASA/JF Hylton PA
Collection Management DiscussionAgenda
o What Does Collection Management Mean?
o What are the Collection Management Activities?
o What is the Framework for Collection Management?
o What are some Collection Management Issues?
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Janet HyltonNASA/JF Hylton PA
Collections Management DiscussionWhat It Means
Administration of the collections (data) environment so that the data are
o AccessibleAccessible - What can be done to ensure that I can access the data?
o Accurate Accurate - What can be done to ensure that the information that I accessed is accurate?
o ConsistentConsistent - What can be done to ensure that the results are consistent?
Across sites.
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Janet HyltonNASA/JF Hylton PA
Collections Management DiscussionActivities
Identifying Mandatory Metadata Mandatory Metadata Consistency, AccessibilityConsistency, Accessibility
Identifying Common Set of ValuesCommon Set of Values Consistency, AccessibilityConsistency, Accessibilitywhere appropriate
Identifying a Common SchemaCommon Schema Consistency, AccessibilityConsistency, Accessibility
Identifying Standard ProceduresStandard Procedures AccuracyAccuracyfor creating and maintaining the metadata
Developing ToolsTools to assist in the AccuracyAccuracyadministration of the collections
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Janet HyltonNASA/JF Hylton PA
Collection Management DiscussionFramework
Global NodeStructure
CollectionStructure
CollectionDatabase
ExplainDatabase
Collections Manualprovides Procedures forcreation and maintenance
Valids Document providesconsistent values
CIP Specification providesSchema Definition andMandatory Data
SiteSpecificSpace
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Collection Management DiscussionIssues
o Global Node Design
Modify the Collections Manual and Valids Doc to include the Global Node concepts.
Maintenance-Automated Collection Replication
o Automated tools
Creation and Maintenance
Mandatory Attr Checking- are the Mandatory Attr specified
Valids Checking - are the valids correct
Value Checking - are the Coll Id’s constructed properly
Integrity Checking - are the local included Coll in the Collections Structure/ Collections DB