PBCore Resources

How to reference a related web page?

Written by Jack Brighton on Friday, June 05, 2009

Say you have an audio archive of a radio news story that's on a web page. In the PBCore record for the audio archive, how do you reference the web page?

Would it be:

<pbcoreRelation>
   <relationType>Is Part Of</relationType>
   <relationIdentifier>http://will.illinois.edu/news/story-item-foo/<relationIdentifier>
</pbcoreRelation>

Or perhaps its relationType should be Is Referenced By.

I have a reservation about using pbcoreRelation for this, because it assumes the web page is a "media item" capable of being expressed in another PBCore record. (See: http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/relationType.html)  I doubt PBCore was ever intended to catalog web pages, and the practice of doing that would seem...daunting.

Regardless this question arises because, what if you have a media player capable of ingesting PBCore records and playing the media file, and you want to link to an original web page on which the media file was first published? This is not a hypothetical question. If pbcoreRelation isn't the way to do this, it would be important to settle the question very soon.

Thoughts?

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