Actually, I just forwarded it to the OpenURL Advisory Group's listserv, as
well, since it's an issue I think probably needs to be addressed at that
level, too.

-Ross.

On 3/19/07, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I would recommend that you send this query to the OpenURL listserv
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>
> at one point there was something at caltech that did this; i'm not
> sure if it made it to final
>
>
> >Hi--
> >
> >Is there any existing code that can validate the descriptive metadata of
> >an OpenURL ContextObject?
> >
> >For example,
> >http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
> >states thats "auinit1" can have zero or one value and it must be the
> >first author's first initial. Is there something into which I can input
> >an OpenURL to see whether indeed the auinit1 param value is only one
> >character (either A-Z or a-z) and has no more than one occurrence...
> >plus all the other constraints for the other parameters in the Matrix on
> >http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
> >?
> >
> >
> >        --SET
>
>
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