Gauri: The Government of Canada has created a list of type terms in English and French for web resources. You'll find a link to Government of Canada Type Scheme on this page: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/im-gi/mwg-gtm/typ-typ/intro_e.asp. The final report by the group who developed the list is also linked from this page. It outlines the scope, application and management of the scheme.
You can read our guidance how to applying type in the "Government of Canada Metadata Implementation Guide for Web Resources" at: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/im-gi/mwg-gtm/ts-sf/docs/2005/migwr-gpmrw/migwr-gpmrwtb_e.asp.
All Government of Canada web pages are available in English and French. You can toggle between them by clicking on "Français" or "English" at the top of every page.
If you have any questions or comments about this, I'll be very happy to discuss them with you.
Gregory Renaud
IM Strategies | Stratégies de la gestion de l'information
Chief Information Officer Branch | Direction du dirigeant principal de l'information
Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada
Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R5
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From: General DCMI discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Salokhe, Gauri (GILW)
Sent: April 3, 2006 11:13 AM
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Subject: dc:type
Dear All,
We at the Food and Agricultural Organization are working towards developing a
comprehensive list to describe resource types (dc:type). The current DCMIType
list does not meet all our requirements. Before we start with the process of
expanding our list to accommodate all sorts of resource types, we would like
to know if anyone on this list has already done this. Are any of your own
organizations using similar expanded lists, and if so, is it possible to
reuse them in our applications?
Thanks in advance,
Gauri
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Gauri Salokhe
Information Management Officer
GILW, Room No. A-255
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06 570 54183
Fax: +39 06 570 54049
http://www.fao.org/aims/
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