The ElectronicSource Object

Just looking at the new Microsoft Repository, and I was intrigued to find this data type. In fact, it knocked me sideways because I had only been discussing it with a number of different people over the last while. This has two properties 'DataAvailableFrom' and 'DataAvailableTo', which means we can make the item available for a discreet period of time, in line with typical copyright licensing agreements. The problem that I have been pondering is 'could we use a repository to manage copyright licence restricted material for our students?' I think you guys have really been wearing your thinking caps. Could this do what we need? Very Interesting.

The data model that you are looking is modified since beta1. ElectronicSource now contains only a ‘Reference’ to an external resource. But we should be able to associate ScholarlyWork objects with it. ScholarlyWork now contains most of the Date fields.

What resource types to support and what properties should go with each resource type was/is a difficult question. There is always a possibility of missing out something. So, we’ve kept a window open for custom properties using the ResourceProperty object. In the latest drop of Zentity, we are also working on a data model extensibility feature that would allow users to create resource types specific to their needs.

Any suggestions on the resource type or properties that should be present out of the box are most welcome.

Thanks,
~Sandeep

Latest model has:

Resource: Id, DateAdded, DateModified, Description, Title and Uri
ScholarlyWorkItem inherits from Resource: Scope
ScholarlyWork inherits from ScholarlyWorkItem: License, DateValidUntil, Notes, Abstract, Copyright, DateValidFrom, Language, DateAvailableUntil, DateAvailableFrom, DateCopyrighted
ElectronicSource inherits from ScholarlyWorkItem: Reference

Many-To-Many association between ElectronicSource and ScholarlyWork