View metadata
are not passed to OLAC, but are nevertheless important when
- a team of scholars is working
on a single collection of common data, or
- a group of students is working
on the same assigned collection.
View metadata are always tied to a
particular state of a particular collection by:
- ID of the owner
- Title of the collection
- Time stamp of last time the
collection was modified.
Every set of view metadata also
contains
- ID of the analyst, who may or
may not be the owner
- Name of the view
- [Time stamp of the last time
the view was modified - not yet]
- Threshold of the view, in per
cent
- Remarks on the view as a whole
- For each variety in the view,
the short name and order number
- All the analyst's annotations
for that view
- All the results of tabulation
for that view
- All the groups tabulated for
that view
Since all this information is
already present within Wordcorr, it can all be put together
automatically. The menu item File | Export View XML is intended to
do this; but is not ready for general use - it includes all
the data and all the views, but Wordcorr puts it in the wrong place
where you have to do a search to find it. Furthermore, we don't yet
have a good way of merging information about a view in with the
collection that it is a view of.
So for now, whether as a team or
as a class, just export what you have using File | Export XML and
pass it around. And if you know an XML expert who would like to
take part in an interesting project, we'd like to talk.
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