Simon Pockley wrote:
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> ... The `Type' is the type of digital resource.
This is required by the 1:1 principle.
> When these resources are displayed on-line they usually become
> compound/mixed types (sound, text, image, animation, etc).
"usually" is a bit strong.
> 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?
Please be careful to keep the distinction between DC.Type
and DC.Format clear here.
I agree that there is some question about the Type of multimedia
resources. The discussion in the wg threw up arguments both ways
on this, but on balance we opted for parsimony since it appeared
that quite sufficient information for "simple resource discovery"
could be provided by repetition of DC.Type. Also, please remember
that DC.Relation provides a good mechanism for clustering resources.
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