how about: "the resource is accessible (or available?) as sound"
... the notion of 'significant' makes me shudder. What does it mean?
Julie
Thomas Baker wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Picking up the discussion of [1], I think we should focus
> first on defining the "range" (i.e., characterizing the nature
> of the value associated with a described resource using the
> "accessibility" property) before we turn back to the definition.
>
> I also think we need to distinguish between saying that the
> range of the property is "a statement" and saying that the
> property is used to "make a statement" (in the DCAM sense).
>
> As I understand [1], I do not think we mean the former (i.e.,
> that the range of the property is actually a statement) but
> the latter. If that is the case, then the proposed definition
> is correct in not defining the property in terms of being
> a "statement about" something (e.g., a statement about a
> characteristic of the resource...).
>
> I think we made some good progress on the call by focusing on
> auditoryOnly. To recap from [2], here are some proposed meanings
> for auditoryOnly as a value:
>
> the notion that the resource is limited in accessibility
> to auditory mode (Tom)
>
> the notion that the resource is accessible within
> the limitation of auditory mode (Tom)
>
> the notion that access to the resource requires
> the sense of hearing (Pete)
>
> The resource contains some significant content available
> as sounds only. (Andrew citing Zimmermann)
>
> If the last interpretation is the closest to the one intended,
> how might that be paraphrased? Perhaps:
>
> the notion that the resource presents itself primarily
> to auditory capacities
>
> You may catch at my struggle here to see qualities such as
> "auditory", "haptic", and "visual" as characteristics inherent
> to the resource as opposed to characteristics with respect to
> human capacities.
>
> In order to get further with this, we should be able to
> fill in the following blanks:
>
> auditoryOnly - limited to auditory, which means...
> hapticOnly - limited to haptic, which means...
> visualOnly - limited to visual, which means...
> brailleOnly - limited to braille, which means...
> tactileOnly - limited to tactile, which means...
> olfactoryOnly - limited to olfactory, which means...
> hazard - limited to ???
>
> Tom
>
> [1] http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/AccessibilityProposal
> [2] http://dublincore.org:8080/usage/minutes/2009/2009-04-22.dcub-telecon-report.html
>
>
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