BSn EUROMEDIA Doctype Description:

EUROMEDIA Description:

  Doctype Classes
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     Doctype (Generic Document Type)
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     COLONDOC
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     COLONGRP
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    EUROMEDIA

The EUROMEDIA format is an emerging standard used to create and exchange national language multimedia metarecords within the EU-sponsored EUROMEDIA project. At current the project has participating partners in Germany, France, Italy and Spain with record languages of, resp., German, French, Italian and Spanish.

A EUROMEDIA record consists of a collection of fields which detail specific information about the data.

From the point of view of syntactical structure it is a heirarchical colondoc-based document format. The EUROMEDIA class has been implemented as a child of COLONGRP.

A EUROMEDIA record starts with a Local_number: followed by a unique 8-digit identification number for the record (Handle), eg:

Local_number: 00000024 Although the doctype supports any other unique key, the workflow solution and charter specify an 8-digit number.

The Field Name Group is a reserved name. It supports some structure via Groupings.

Group: GroupName
        Field:  Value
        Field:  Value
        Field:  Value
End_Group

Groups may contains groups. For each Group one must specify End_Group to inform the parser where the end of the group is. At current the EUROMEDIA project does not use groups and their use is reserved.

Example:

The Headline is constructed from the Local_number, Title and Language_code.
Example: 00000024: Veneto in cifre 1994-1995 (Italiano):

Attribute Set
Attribute Description

Local_number:

Date_added_to_database:

Date_last_modified:

Title:

Title_series:

Code_language:

Code_country:

Date:

Object:

Material_type:

Authority_format:

Record_source:

Publisher:

Notes_distribution:

Number_local_call:

Abstract:

Local_subject_index:

Subject_TEE:

UDC_classification:

Dewey_classification:

Addressee_italian:

Addressee_german:

Addressee_french:

Addressee_spanish:

Language_prerequisite::

Attribute Set
`Attribute`	`Description`
Local_number:
Date_added_to_database:
Date_last_modified:
Title:
Title_series:
Code_language:
Code_country:
Date:
Object:
Material_type:
Authority_format:
Record_source:
Publisher:
Notes_distribution:
Number_local_call:
Abstract:
Local_subject_index:
Subject_TEE:
UDC_classification:
Dewey_classification:
Addressee_italian:
Addressee_german:
Addressee_french:
Addressee_spanish:
Language_prerequisite::

Although the field names are in English, in the next version the attributes (field names) for the presentation will be converted (on-the-fly) to the native language of the record.

The MIME type for Raw Records is Application/X-EUROMEDIA.

EUROMEDIA Description:

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