Validation of hierarchical metadata about curation-dashboard

[davoros]

One possible solution would be to recognize that a CMDI instance has ResourceLinks of type 'Metadata', and if so, treat it differently than CMDI instances that don't.

Could you explain this a bit better or do you have any concrete proposal?

I was thinking that it does not make sense to include such CMDIs in the global statistics because they will necessarily lack some or even many facets, since they do not describe a resource but rather a collection.
To give you an example:
CMDI A describes a collection of historic texts, CMDI B describes one document.
B will have information about a creation date, A will not because it makes no sense if the collected texts are over a long (or even still open) time period.

Insofar one could sort CMDIs into 'leaf' CMDIs that do not have any ResourceLinks of type 'Metadata', and 'structural' CMDIs that do contain at least one ResourceLink of type 'Metadata', before doing any statistics about facets.

Best regards,

Florian