At 5:44 PM -0500 7/15/97, Andrew Daviel wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Jordan Reiter wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure that in metadata, resource-type refers to what you call
>> "TYPE", while in fact the term "MEDIA" refers to what you call "format".
>> In web implementation, for example, it might look like:
>> <META NAME="DC.Resource-Type" CONTENT="document.essay" MEDIA="audio/aiff">
>
>
>That looks awfully like HTML to me ... and in the 4.0 draft, we have:
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.1.3.2)
>
>ELEMENT META
> i18n lang, dir
> http-equiv NAME #IMPLIED
> name NAME #IMPLIED
> content CDATA #REQUIRED
> scheme CDATA #IMPLIED
>
> .. no MEDIA.
>
>In DC we currently have a TYPE element and a FORMAT element
>("assigned from enumerated lists such as .. MIME types")
>
>(so maybe I should have put world/vrml, audio/basic etc.)
>
>.. however, in CSS we do have
>ELEMENT STYLE
> i18n lang, dir
> type CDATA #REQUIRED
> media CDATA #IMPLIED
> title CDATA #IMPLIED
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/present/styles.html)
>but that's HTML, not DC.
Ummm...I was...uh...tired. Yeah. Tired. That's it. You're absolutely
right, I was thinking, actually, of the <LINK> tag, which I think does have
a MEDIA attribute, particularly when Style sheets are involved.
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