Specification of the prestochango library, version 0.3.6 >

Working with inventory data

prestochango creates an object model of the information that is serialized in XML as a CITE Collections inventory file. This includes information about extensions to CITE Collections recognized in this inventory, and about each inventoried Collection.

Information about CITE Exentions

You can determine the number of Extensions, and for each Extension:

- its abbreviated name
- its full RDF verb

Information about inventoried Collections

Every Collection belongs to a CITE namespace. In CITE URNs, the namespace is identified with an abbreviated identifier. For any namespace in the inventory, you can determine what its abbreviated identifier, and what full URI that corresponds to.

Examples

TBA

You can determine the number of Collections in the repository, and for each Collection:

the name and type of each its properties
if a property has a constrained set of values, a list of allowed values
the property for its canonical identifier (always a CITE URN)
the property with its standard human-readable label (in RDF serializations, expressed with rdf:label)
whether the Collection is ordered
what type of data source it is stored in
the name of the data source

Examples

Given the test data in this TextInventory file (validated against this schema), and a reference to any directory, we can determine that:

it inventories 1 Collection
the URN for that collection is urn:cite:hmt:u4

In that inventory, collection urn:cite:hmt:u4

is an ordered collection
it is ordered by the Sequence property
the property for its canonical identifier is named URN
the property for its standard human-readable label is named Label

The complete list of its properties is:

Property names
CodexURN
Label
RV
Sequence
URN

Their types are:

Name	Type
CodexURN	citeurn
Label	string
RV	string
Sequence	number
URN	citeurn

The RV property has an authority list of allowed values. They are

Allowed values
recto
verso

Information about indexed relations

When a property in a CITE Collection is a URN type, the inventory may optionally indicate the nature of the relationship between the cited object and the object in this collection. The relationship is expressed as a pair of RDF verbs.