>I'm concerned about the examples given for physical objects
Surely the important point here is that where a digital surrogate is created
from a physical object, reference to that object, is either through the
`Relation' or `Source' elements or both. The `Type' is the type of digital
resource. When these resources are displayed on-line they usually become
compound/mixed types (sound, text, image, animation, etc).
The most valuable information that can be supplied about a mixed type is the
format and system requirements needed to run it. Looking ahead: it is not so
much about finding the stuff as about being able to access it (there is a
difference). If the `Type' element requires that these mixed resources are to
be deconstructed into their parts i.e. a list of image formats and text types
etc, then we must also ask how this is to be done (by hand or machine) and for
what reason?
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