I don't know if it's the coffee I'm drinking or the beautiful day dawning
out my window, but I am changing the drafts in response to this request.
"Environment" in both the minimalist and structuralist drafts is now
"Interactive", which, I believe, brings it more in compliance with what
has come before and will also take care of Arthur's concern. Since no one
had expressed any great love for the former term I doubt anyone will much
miss it. If I'm wrong I'm sure I'll find out...Thanks,
Roy Tennant
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Arthur Chapman wrote:
>
> I thought we had just about exhausted the Resource Type discussion several
> months ago, but lo and behold, it has surfaced again.
>
> What concerns me is that we seem to have gone back to square one again.
>
> Roy Tennant started a discussion group up at the start of the year, and
> from that lengthy discussion, the summary that he prepared resulted in
> http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Metadata/types.html.
>
> It is obvious that we will not satisfy everyone on this, and I think it
> is time to do some fine tuning rather than revisit the whole topic again.
>
> I have some concerns, and will probably modify the final result to suit our
> use.
>
> I believe we should take what Roy has prepared as a basis and move from there.
> Like one earlier commentator, I think somewhere between the minimilist approach
> and the Structuralist approach would set the right balance. A pick list
> with up to 10-12 items is quite manageable.
>
> I also have problems with the term "Environment" - it is a secondary use of
> this term, and working in an "Environment" organisation, I do not think its
> use in this case is appropriate.
>
> We have been using the original list of Jon Knights at
> http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/Metadata/DC-ObjectTypes.html as an interim
> solution for the Environment Australia On Line Service (see
> http://www.environment.gov.au), but this has some major shortcomings.
> Some of these have only come to light once we started documenting all the
> documents. One is Web Index pages (Home Pages?). These are high level
> and ones that we particularly need to index. I believe that the structuralist
> approach satisfies this.
>
> Earlier, I also had concerns with database outputs and GIS/Remote Sensing
> information - again, I think this is handled in a manageable way in the
> most recent edition.
>
> In brief - I believe we can live with Roy Tennant's Structuralist model
> cut down for our own use, but please alter "Environment" to something else!
>
> One last plea - please let us move on and not spend the next twelve months
> racing around in circles chasing our tails! We need a solution we can use
> now!
>
> regards
>
> Arthur
>
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