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Introduction

The Metadata Catalog service aims at modelling of arbitrary metadata relationships (IDB-relationships). The only assumption it does is that the metadata objects are serialized as well-formed XML documents. The service has a two-fold role:

  • to manage Metadata Objects and Metadata Collections
  • to establish secondary role-typed links. Such relationships can be in place between any type of Information Object and in the scope of a Collection or not