Hi Ross,
We have an XSLT client for DAIA that could be used to better show the
list:
http://ws.gbv.de/daia/daia.xsl. There will be more clients and
visualization of DAIA as soon as our server is finished.
> I note in your documentation that you mention that 'DAIA is not about
> location', which is fine. Location is going to be desirable from a
> client perspective, however.
>
> Do you think we can come up with some agreement on how to pull in
> location from some other standard and namespace it (say) into DAIA?
We thought about opening the DAIA XML format for foreign namespaces
but unless there is a standardized XML vocabulary I hesitate to
pollute the DAIA documentation and reference implementation with bad
examples. DAIA comes with several entities that can be used as
location indicators:
1. institution - the institution that grants or knows about services
and their availability (for instance a library or library network)
2. department - an administrative sub-entitity of the institution that
is responsible for an item (for instance the specific library of an
institute at a university)
3. storage - a physical location of the item (building, stack, floor
etc.)
4. label - textual label for an item (for instance the call number)
All of these entities can consist of a simple string, a hyperlink (for
instance to a map, to the homepage etc.), and an identifier (URI). I
think this should be enough for most use cases. If you want more
detailed information on location, you can specify an identifier and
provide another API to look up detailed location information via this
identifier.
> I guess what I'm asking for is that the development community comes up
> with an agreement on how we might be best able to implement this in
> practice.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic but in my impression every library network
has its own registry of library addresses and every library has its
own way to to organize in physical and administrative subsections, so
I better avoid going into details ;-)
Greetings
Jakob
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