I'm trying to support a semantic annotation object format - in this case it is serialized as JSON - and am unsure how to type it. In most ways it should be treated like a RESOURCE formatType in that:

it should be harvested and stored on the CN¶

it should be indexed by the CN¶

indexing these objects affects index values for other objects that are described by the annotation model¶

Unfortunately, we require (or assume?) that a RESOURCE formatType is an ORE model serialized as RDF/XML.

We should relax this requirement using one or more of these options:

allow other ObjectFormats to be be classified as RESOURCEs and synchronize them without an extra "validation" step¶

consider indexing DATA objects and type the annotation as that¶

consider allowing non-XML METADATA objects to be stored and indexed and type the annotation as this¶

consider adding a new formatType that is handled similarly to our current RESOURCE formatType but is more lenient and will allow for JSON serializations (and others)¶