At 4:46 PM -0000 7/9/97, Roy Tennant wrote:
>* determine the fewest possible resource types that also allow enough
>granularity to enhance access
>* provide brief canonical names, descriptions and examples for each
>resource type
>* recommend a procedure whereby new resource types may be added
I definitely think that subdivision would be ideal for resource types (ie,
resource-type="book.anthology" instead of resource-type="anthology"). This
certainly has many possiblities to indicate the source/location of the
document For example, a poem from an anthology of poetry could be listed in
a single line that might look like (assuming that a colon could be used to
indicate containment):
resource-type="book.anthology:poem"
What about the use of current bibliographic documentation (MLA, APA) as a
scheme?
Is resource type related to the media format of the document itself? I
noticed that "video" and "image" are listed as resource types. If resource
types are not intended to indicate media types, is there any way that the
media type *can* be indicated (or should it be indicated at all)?
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