episode number within a series
I've seen multiple methods of including an episode number in a PBCore record and am interested in which method to use. So far I've seen:
1. title = episodeNumber where titleType = "Episode"
2. identifier = episodeNumber where titleType = "Episode Number for {Series Title}"
3. extension = "asset_EpisodeNumber:"episodeNumber where extensionAuthorityUsed = "PBS PODS"
There may be other methods. Of the methods above, option 1 seems to have a higher vote, since both the Alliance for Community Media Server Standard's Working Group and Wisconsin Public Television both followed this method independently. But in option 1 if a program has a more formal episode title would there be any problem with two titles where titleType = "Episode". For example:
<pbcoreTitle><title>Curious George</title><titleType>Series</titleType></pbcoreTitle>
<pbcoreTitle><title>George Authors a Metadata Standard</title><titleType>Episode</titleType></pbcoreTitle>
<pbcoreTitle><title>987</title><titleType>Episode</titleType></pbcoreTitle>
“Common” PBCore Errors
Hello PBCore friends,
I've written a blog post on pbcore errors which may be of interest to the folks here. The focus is on errors which would impede interoperability. Feel free to post your comments, and/or tell me why these sorts of errors are not, in fact, problematic.
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