DIVAS Meeting

Had a DIVAS meeting today - all productive. I was asked to supply a short paragraph / statement about my side of the project - so here it is (I will try and strip out as much of the teccy stuff as I can):

We had some problems matching the required document attributes with the element/fields of specific metadata schemas - such as Dublin Core and LOM. In essence, the DIVAS project needs to record some specific details - against which users could search for these documents. for example:

• Subject
• Level
• Form of Assessment
• Prof Associated Body etc....
  

Rather than finding a quick fix / imperfect workaround with the schemas that HIVE already uses - it was agreed that XCRI-CAP is a schema that matches very closely to what we were trying to record (see image).

Currently we are working on the HIVE repository being able to mark up documents stored in it against the XCRI-CAP metadata schema.

Essentially, HIVE requires an SDI file (XML file) to be written that tells HIVE how to generate a GUI (Graphical User Interface) - this user interface is a graphical representation of the metadata schema tree - providing the user with the field elements that make up the metadata tree and (associated with each element) the type of data you can record (see image - Dublin Core Example).

Sam has transformed the XCRI-CAP schema document (XSD file) into an SDI file by creating an XML instance of the XSD using XMLSpy. This has created a valid and fairly usable GUI in HIVE but the ouput XML file has a few errors - therefore some work needs to be done on correcting this.

Work continues and as long as we can generate a vliad output (XML output) that is valid for XCRI-CAP then it looks good to start uploading documents to HIVE.