sbJson 2.0 parentId

[stansmith907]

Mapping of sbJson parentId to mdTranslator internal data structure:

• reader complete
• writer complete

{
    "parentId":"4f46607504a61aa9773f463d""
}

Definition: The unique ScienceBase id of the parent of this item. This is a string. This is one of two required fields in creating a new item, the other field is title.

• Map to metadata metadataInfo parentMetadata identifier:
  [schema][metadata][metadataInfo][parentMetadata][identifiers][n].identifier
  view mdTools
  [schema][metadata][metadataInfo][parentMetadata][identifiers][n].namespace
  view mdTools
  [schema][metadata][metadataInfo][parentMetadata].title
  view mdTools

---

Mapping to mdTranslator

   def newBase
      intObj = {
         metadata: {
            metadataInfo: {
               parentMetadata: {
                  title: 'USGS ScienceBase parent identifier',
                  alternateTitles: [],
                  dates: [],
                  edition: nil,
                  responsibleParties: [],
                  presentationForms: [],
                  identifiers: [
                     {
                        identifier: '4f46607504a61aa9773f463d',
                        namespace: 'gov.sciencebase.catalog',
                        version: nil,
                        description: nil,
                        citation: {}
                     }
                  ],
                  series: {},
                  otherDetails: [],
                  onlineResources: [],
                  browseGraphics: []
               }
            }
         }
      }
   end

Translation to mdJson

{
   "metadata": {
      "metadataInfo": {
         "parentMetadata": {
            "title": "USGS ScienceBase parent identifier",
            "identifier": [
               {
                  "identifier": "4f46607504a61aa9773f463d",
                  "nameSpace": "gov.sciencebase.catalog"
               }
            ]
         }
      }
   }
}

[jlblcc]

Note that the title here is only provided as an example. It may be any character string. The writer will need to search for the first identifier with namespace = gov.sciencebase.catalog.

[stansmith907]

Actually, I inserted the title. I assume 'gov.sciencebase.catelog' namespace will be multiply occurring. I'm not sure what we need to search? parentMetadata is in its own tag. Which would have been obvious if I had not messed up the mdJson example above - fixed now :).

[jlblcc]

Each item in SB can only have one parent(AFAIK). So an identifier with "namespace": "gov.sciencebase.catalog" should only appear once in the parentMetadata > identifier array. So we just need to search until we find one.

[stansmith907]

Ahh, you thinking we could end up with multiple identifiers? I suppose we could if someone were to extend the record. We should take the first one with the namespace of 'gov.scienceBase.catalog'

[jlblcc]

I'm sure we'll end up with all kinds of strange and wonderful things. 😬