Hi Julie,
> how about: "the resource is accessible (or available?) as sound"
On reading this formulation, it occurs to me that DCMI already has a
term that "says" almost exactly this i.e. the class dcmitype:Sound.
And in fact, the current definition of dcmitype:Sound even captures the
notion that there's a capability of a consumer involved i.e. "A resource
primarily intended to be heard."
Similarly for the visual case and dcmitype:Image
The only distinction I can see being made in the auditoryOnly/visualOnly
case is the emphasis on "only": that that aspect is key/"significant".
> ... the notion of 'significant' makes me shudder. What does it mean?
I take the point that there's a subjective element to "significant", but
I guess it's not so different from the use of "primarily" in the
existing dcmitype:Sound definition.
I guess the intent is to communicate that the presence of sound is
critical to the effective "consumption" of the resource... Not sure I
can think of a good example... For a video of an interview (assuming no
subtitles) the sound element is critical; but I might have a video of
street traffic with an audiotrack which was just incidental background
noise.
Pete
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