We've recently been looking at the Resource Types here at Berkeley as
well, and I know that my colleague Gail Clement at Florida International
Univ. has as well. May I suggest that those of us who are interested in
this topic form an ad hoc task force to put come up with a proposal of
resource types that uses previous proposals by individuals as a starting
point?
My goals for such a task force would be to:
* 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
If this suggestion meets general approval, I will go out on a limb and
volunteer other individuals to serve: me, Arthur Chapman, Gail Clement,
and whomever else wants to participate.
Roy Tennant
UC Berkeley Library
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Arthur Chapman wrote:
> We are in the process of setting up Dublin Core on our site. It has
> some 10,000 plus documents coveraing a wide range of environmental
> subjects.
>
> We have examined the "Resource Types" at
> http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/Metadata/DC-ObjectTypes.html
>
> and would like to suggest a few additions:
>
> Fact Sheet
>
> We have many documents that are one-page fact sheets about a
> particular topical issue. They do not really fit into any pf
> the other categories
>
> Media Release
>
> Being a Government Department, we get many Media and Press
> Releases that are similtaneously released on the Web.
>
> Project Info
>
> We (and I notice a lot of other sites) have information on
> Projects or Programs. At a very large stretch it could fit
> under Organisation Info, however, we believe it is better
> listed under a separate heading.
>
> I am not sure of the process of getting these added to the main list
> other than going via this listerver.
>
> regards
>
> arthur
>
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