Stu,
At a system level, resource types are fundamental to interoperability among
digital libary systems. MIME types have done a wonderful job, but library
information needs richer forms of typing. I would be interested in hearing
from people who are actually building systems that use resource types to
interoperate, but should we do this outside the meta2 list?
Bill
At 02:46 PM 9/23/97 -0400, Weibel,Stu wrote:
>Gary's dissatisfaction with Roy's TYPE scheme amplifies what Robin is
>alluding to in her message... that
>there will be a number of such TYPE schemes, most likely organized
>around specific domains.
>
>Why not collect a few that people want to use now, do a quick pass over
>them to consolidate obvious
>duplications and start using them. Yes we'd be better off in the long
>run if there was a single list
>but a modest number of small sets might cover the majority of
>possibilities, and enable us to build a better,
>consoilidated one based on experience.
>
>stu
>
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