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I don't know how far DCMI is prepared to stray from the proposed definitions, so I tried to stay as close to the DCMI proposed as possible: "A computer program in source or compiled form which may be available for installation nontransiently on another machine." Another suggestion is: "A resource which is encoded information used to store and process information as part of a computer system." This is a based on the definition of (computer) software in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software. And, I suggest removing the second "." after the Sound definition. Gregory Renaud Information Management Strategies Division / La Division des stratégies de gestion de l'information Chief Information Officer Branch / Direction du dirigeant principal de l'information Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat / Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R5 telephone / téléphone (613) 946-6280 facsimile / télécopieur (613) 946-9342 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Misha Wolf [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: December 16, 2005 11:26 AM To: Renaud, Gregory; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: [DCMIType] Comment on suggested changes Generally good. See comments marked with "[MW]". Misha -----Original Message----- From: General DCMI discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gregory Renaud Sent: 16 December 2005 15:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [DCMIType] Comment on suggested changes Below are suggested changes to the DCMI type vocabulary definitions. I've normalized the structure so each definition begins with "A resource which...", removed examples from the definitions (eg. Dataset). I've also made some changes to the content of a few definitions, including Service (to be in line with Ann's suggestion below) and expanded on comment for Collection.. [snip] Software: A resource which is expressed as a computer program in source or compiled form; may be available for installation nontransiently on another machine. [MW] The stuff after the ";" doesn't belong to the same sentence and doesn't seem to make sense. Where did a machine come in? How come it is "another" machine? This implies that there was an identified machine to start with. Sound: A resource which is primarly intended to be heard.. [MW] Remove one or other ".". [snip] Gregory Renaud Information Management Strategies Division / La Division des stratégies de gestion de l'information Chief Information Officer Branch / Direction du dirigeant principal de l'information Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat / Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R5 telephone / téléphone (613) 946-6280 facsimile / télécopieur (613) 946-9342 [log in to unmask] To find out more about Reuters visit www.about.reuters.com Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.