[#AMATH-305] Creator role="aut" is not overwritten properly

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Creator role="aut" is not overwritten properly

Created: 2004-04-01 10:04 Updated: 2007-11-04 01:11

Component/s:

MBase, MBase: SLuMB

Affects Version/s:

1.0a7

Fix Version/s:

1.0

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If I add the DC metadata creator of an OMDoc element, I would expect that it
overwrites the creator of the enclosing OMDoc. But this is not the case.
Example:
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<omdoc id="am_intro_texts_top">
<metadata>

<Creator role="aut"> George Goguadze </Creator>
<Source> </Source>
<Type> Text </Type>
<Format> application/omdoc+xml </Format>
</metadata>

<Creator role="aut">Carsten Ullrich</Creator>
</metadata>
...
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I would expect that a click on the copyright button would show me as the
creator, but this is still George.
How to reproduce:
Book: Introduction to ActiveMath --> Learning OMDoc in 10 minutes
I tried it with Lucene.

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Paul Libbrecht - 2004-04-01 10:04

I wouldn't expect it to overwrite but to add...
What does the OMDoc spec say ?

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Paul Libbrecht - 2004-08-06 15:08

Now, independent of the spec, it makes sense to inherit with union the creators as one expects further content in a document for be additions to existing content such as a translation...

The OMDoc specs doesn't say it so:

The metadata elements can be added to many of the OMDoc elements described in this chapter, including grouping elements that can contain others that contain metadata. To avoid duplication, OMDoc assumes a priority-union semantics of Dublin Core metadata. A Dublin Core element, e.g. Creator that is missing in in a lower metadata declaration is inherited from the upper ones. So in Figure 3.2, the two boxes are equivalent, since the metadata in theory th1 and in definition d1 is inherited from the main declaration in the top-level omdoc element. If there is a metadata element of the same name present, nothing is inherited.

but I insist it should be so.

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Paul Libbrecht - 2004-08-06 22:08

So it seems I and Shahid will have to do this.
Namely, authors shouldn't added using inheritance, it should suppress it.

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Paul Libbrecht - 2007-03-13 16:03

we should clear this for 1.0.
paul

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Paul Libbrecht - 2007-11-04 01:11

fixed.
Date, creator-role-aut, title, and description are now non-cumulative.

I could try this with:
<yourAM>/main/copyright.cmd?id=mbase%3A%2F%2FActiveMath_Content_Examples%2Fbasic_texts%2Fproblem

paul