Re: METS question for @USE in file/fileGrp

Dear Ethan,

I think your suggested organization is, and your chosen semantics are, perfectly consistent regarding how the USE attribute was meant to be employed on the fileGrp and file elements, per the METS documention [1].  I didn't do an exhaustive search, but looking at other examples I found things like "large," "screen," "print," "encodedtext," etc.

All best,
Kevin

[1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSPrimerRevised.pdf

 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Ethan Gruber
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:33 AM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] METS question for @USE in file/fileGrp
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> According to the METS schema, the USE attribute is " A tagging
> attribute to indicate the intended use of files within this file group
> (e.g., master, reference, thumbnails for image files)." I'm using the
> mets:fileSec to capture images of a coin within a larger numismatic XML
> schema.  The @USE is an unrestricted xs:string, and this example
> document -
> http://fedora.library.northwestern.edu/fedora/get/inu:inu-afrmap-
> 4333843/source-
> uses "recto" as a USE for images of a map.  By this same token, is it
> semantically acceptable to have "obverse" and "reverse" as a USE?
> 
> Example:
> 
> fileGrp use="obverse"
>   file use="master"
>   file use="reference"
>   file use="thumbnail"
> fileGrp use="reverse"
>   file use="master"
>   file use="reference"
>   file use="thumbnail"
> 
> Thanks,
> Ethan