Hi Roy, et al.,
I manage the digital media archive at Microsoft Corporation - our collections include over a Terabyte of multimedia elements used in publishing Microsoft's consumer products & services, such as Encarta, Cinemania, MSN & MSNBC, Windows User interface elements, 3-D renderings for games, and a plethora of other material. In implementing our digital asset management system (we currently have 30,000+ assets described and indexed) , I have relied on the DC work to help develop our data standards. I've been watching the TYPE element develop for some time, but don't recall seeing any discussion of the following resource types (correct me if I've missed it):
Animation sequences
Audio Voice-overs & narrations
Graphic elements (non-photographic)
Sound Effects (non-musical)
Virtual Worlds
I'd definitely like to help represent TYPE needs for non-textual resources.
Kevin J. Comerford, Media Archive Manager, Microsoft Corporation
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From: Roy Tennant [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 9:46 AM
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Subject: Re: Resource Types
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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