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Content Models

• Registry
• Experience with Content Models
• How to Participate
• Types of Developers and Skills
• Useful Documentation
• Best Practices
• Challenge Areas and Hot Topics
  

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  Registry Registry

Registry

Currently, no one is sharing direct access to cModel, sDef and sDep objects, but this is a place where we could establish such a registry.

Experience with Content Models

This is an area to share more descriptive information about local experience with content models. Note that some of these links are to information that precedes the Content Model Architecture that came with Fedora 3.0.

• Hydra Project
• ICPSR Content Models for Social Science data
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center - Complex Content models
• WGBH Boston - media archives
• Tufts Digital Library content models

These links refer to information that was added before version 3.0.

• University_of_Virginia_Content_Model_Documentation (for historical purposes only)
• PARADIGM:_Personal_Archives_Accessible_in_Digital_Media
• DiPP:_Digital_Peer_Publishing
• Danish_State_Library:_Graph_the_Box! Relational Content Modeling
• University of Athens: Digital Object Prototypes
• eSciDoc Project: Content Model Requirements
• Content Models Indiana University Content Model Documentation
• Content models 20060411.pdf ARROW Content Models Examples

How to Participate

Feel free to add any Mailing lists, blogs, regular calls, IRC channels, etc. used by people working on this type of project.

If you don't know where else to look, check the Create Forum and use the fedora-commons-create google group.

Types of Developers & Skills

What type of developers work on projects like this? What skills do they usually draw on?

Useful Documentation

Where can you find useful documentation for working on this type of project?

• A Vocabulary for Content Models and Services
• Content models: Overview

Best Practices

Does it irk you when people keep doing things the "wrong" way? Document the best practices here and they'll (hopefully) learn!

Challenge Areas & Hot Topics

The schema for content models that is distributed with Fedora is considered to be a reference implementation of a way to define content models but it is intended to be easily adapted to support other methods. Here are other approaches:

• State and University Library of Denmark - Fedora Enhanced Content Models

What challenges and roadblocks so people hit when working on these types of projects? What topics and ideas do they get really excited about?