On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Christine Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We've been using METS/DC/MIX for awhile, but now were are going to integrate > full-text searching with texts marked up in TEI (our platform is the > MarkLogic Server). > > Should we consider embedding the TEI in the METS documents, or just link out > to them? Will users need to search for items in both schemas at once? (e.g. metadata from METS and full-text in TEI in the same query). In that case you should absolutely embed the TEI content; MarkLogic exhibits extremely poor performance in executing SQL-style "joins" across multiple documents. Liza -- http://threepress.org