Extensions on the registry

Roy Williams roy at cacr.caltech.edu
Wed Apr 13 08:17:26 PDT 2005



Tony Linde wrote:

>>If "query" means "extract metadata from resource documents, 
>>transform and present to user as XHTML", then clearly a given 
>>registry can't do this properly for unknown extensions. 
>>(Nominating XSLT stylesheets in processing instructions might help.)
>>    
>>
>
>No - registry does not 'present' the data in any way
>

Except that every resource is presented as Dublin Core in addition to 
VOResource. The OAI standard requires that every resource be available 
as a DC record, right?

Roy



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