> In the legacy Dublin Core Qualifiers document, IMT was listed as an
> encoding scheme of the refinement Medium. At that time I argued that was
> nonsensical, as internet media types describe digital resources,
> and Medium
> was (is) defined as "The material or physical carrier of the resource."
> Clearly you are not going to use image/jpeg or text/html as the
> material or
> physical carrier of the resource. IMT also cannot be an encoding scheme
> for the refinement Extent, for obvious reasons. So I'd argue IMT only
> applies as an encoding scheme for unqualified Format, which is
> how it is in
> the new http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/.
One could go further and say that IMT is an encoding scheme for a
subproperty of Format that is neither Extent nor Medium. When used with pure
Dublin Core this in practice still means that it is only used with
unqualified Format, the point only becomes significant if you use a property
from elsewhere that is defined as a subproperty of Format. In such a case
IMT might be useful, or it might be of no use (as it is with Extent and
Medium) or it might be sometimes useful (as it is with Format).
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