[OAI-implementers] usefulness of free text fields

[Hussein Suleman]

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hi

to reinforce Glen's concerns, i advocated something almost identical on
the general mailing list last week (and got no responses) ... i think
its wise to deal with this issue before it becomes a problem ...

Glen, i like your idea of a controlled code table but i think it needs
to be worked on a bit more (generalize the codes, aim for subset
relations, handle both metadata and objects, figure out cleanest
non-overlapping encoding) ... should we forward this to the OAI Tech
Committee for a solution ? alternatively, any takers out there for a
"task force" to come up with a proposal to deal with this ?

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