[DDI-ADG] a few more notes

[Wendy Thomas]

Sorry, about the odd usage of the english language in the previous email
and for the need for this addendum....caffine is only slowly kicking in
this morning...

I just wanted to add that the geoMap (4.3.24) element in version 2.0 was
reflected in the otherMaterials reusable class for the following reasons.

The original tag contained no additional information (other than "level")
to what was found in other definitions to outside materials. The ability
to point to this from any element allows you to point to it from a
specific variable category level, the variable itself, or from any other
appropriate location. For example a map could be the composit of multiple
variables or be simply geography or...well I don't know. Anyway it frees
it up to be used where needed rather than just within the variable.

I have also attached some of the original geographic element discussion
that resulted in the elements currently found on lines 56-69 of REUSABLE
CLASSES. Think of it as a history lesson :-)

Wendy

p.s. Note that these were proposals and may not have been fully
incorporated. The proposals themselves were the result of meetings with
the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer group at UCSB.

Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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