Follow up

[Ken Ramsey]

Peter,

Sorry, I did not see your answers the first time. Could you add an
optional comments (or whatever name) to the ChangeHistroyBase complex
type? Would the type of comments be TextType or String?

Otherwise everything looks good to me. Thanks.

Ken

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Ken Ramsey
Data Manager
Jornada Basin LTER Project
New Mexico State University
Wooton Hall, room 209
Knox Street and Frenger
Box 30003, MSC 3JER
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505)646-7918 (office)
(505)646-5665 (fax)
keramsey at nmsu.edu


>>> Peter McCartney <peter.mccartney at asu.edu> 09/09/02 12:46PM >>>
they are interleaved with your message


Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
Center for Environmental Studies
Arizona State University
480-965-6791 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Ramsey [mailto:kramsey at jornada.nmsu.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:45 AM
> To: peter.mccartney at asu.edu 
> Subject: RE: Follow up
> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Did you forget to send answers to my questions or were you posting
my
> reply to you on eml_dev? Thanks.
> 
> Ken
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> Ken Ramsey
> Data Manager
> Jornada Basin LTER Project
> New Mexico State University
> Wooton Hall, room 209
> Knox Street and Frenger
> Box 30003, MSC 3JER
> Las Cruces, NM 88003
> (505)646-7918 (office)
> (505)646-5665 (fax)
> keramsey at nmsu.edu 
> 
> 
> >>> Peter McCartney <peter.mccartney at asu.edu> 09/09/02 12:38PM >>>
> 
> 
> Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
> Center for Environmental Studies
> Arizona State University
> 480-965-6791 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Ramsey [mailto:kramsey at jornada.nmsu.edu] 
> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:21 AM
> > To: peter.mccartney at asu.edu 
> > Subject: RE: Follow up
> > 
> > 
> > Peter,
> > 
> > I have looked at the maintenance and change history. I have a 
> > couple of
> > questions for you:
> > 
> > 1. Does the ChangeScope hold either the ID, record number, or text
> > string that identifies the actual record being changed?
> 
> Yes, in lieu of specifying parameters that work only to identify one
> record
> using primary keys, i opted to accept any expression that defines
the
> scope.
> this allow you to identify scope by a record sequence number, range
of
> dates, etc. Its not machine parsable, but it would be flexible.
> 
> 
> > 2. MaintenanceUpdateFrequency is the period of time that the 
> > dataset is
> > normally updated by?
> yes...it has an enumeration domain that i took from the ISO spec -
> annual,
> monthly, etc
>  
> > If the answers to the above questions are yes, then the only thing
I
> > would like to be able to do is add further comments 
> > associated with any
> 
> So if i added <comment> as an optional string element?
> 
> > given change. For example, to explain the reason for the change.
If
> I
> > read the XMLspy correctly, all 3 elements under ChangeHistoryBase
> are
> > required?
> yes, but i would make comment optional.
> > Ken
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Ken Ramsey
> > Data Manager
> > Jornada Basin LTER Project
> > New Mexico State University
> > Wooton Hall, room 209
> > Knox Street and Frenger
> > Box 30003, MSC 3JER
> > Las Cruces, NM 88003
> > (505)646-7918 (office)
> > (505)646-5665 (fax)
> > keramsey at nmsu.edu 
> > 
> > 
> > >>> Peter McCartney <peter.mccartney at asu.edu> 09/09/02 10:41AM >>>
> > Hi ken. are you able to view the cvs through the web interface?
> > i added changes to the mainteneance element in dataset.xsd. I
> included
> > the
> > maintenance update frequency field from ISO which has several
> options
> > for
> > identifiying frequency (includeing none). I also simplified the
> change
> > history to be simply text epxressoins of change scope, value
changed
> > and
> > date. the detailed version wasnt working well for changes that
have
> > extensive scope (ie, change all area codes from 602 to 480)
> > 
> > 
> > Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
> > Center for Environmental Studies
> > Arizona State University
> > 480-965-6791 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ken Ramsey [mailto:kramsey at jornada.nmsu.edu] 
> > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:15 PM
> > > To: peter.mccartney at asu.edu 
> > > Subject: Follow up
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Peter,
> > > 
> > > I assume we will talk on Monday about the maintenance/change log
> > > changes to EML, if necessary. It is after 5 PM here and I need
to
> > get
> > > home. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Ken
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------
> > > Ken Ramsey
> > > Data Manager
> > > Jornada Basin LTER Project
> > > New Mexico State University
> > > Wooton Hall, room 209
> > > Knox Street and Frenger
> > > Box 30003, MSC 3JER
> > > Las Cruces, NM 88003
> > > (505)646-7918 (office)
> > > (505)646-5665 (fax)
> > > keramsey at nmsu.edu 
> > > 
> > 
>