Jordan Reiter wrote
>The purpose of creating resource types is to make it clearer what a chunk
>of content--and this is *any* kind of chunk of content, not just HTML, mind
>you--is. For example, is this text document an essay? Is it a letter? Is
>it a biography? Is it a peice of e-mail (like the one you sent)? Is it an
>advertisement? Is the image I am about to open a photograph? A cartoon? An
>illustration? A reproduction? Is the movie clip I am about to watch a
>documentary? An animation? A stop-motion film? Claymation?
I am humbled (as usual).
However, what about overlapping - what if a screen is all these things ?
I can show you a screen (the ones we attach metadata to - inside the
<head>)that can be at once:
thesis - poem - animation - photograph - personal - campfire - metadata -
biography - travel guide - history - journey - film - index - map - art work -
shed -
(and there are nearly 1000 more of these screens which form part of an on-line
work)
Can your resource types accommodate this overlapping ?
I would have thought that the purpose of metadata is to provide accurate
description.
Regards
Simon Pockley
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