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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 > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Arthur D. Chapman [Scientific Coordinator, Biodiversity & Vegetationn, ERIN] > > Environmental Resources Information Network internet: [log in to unmask] > GPO Box 787, Canberra, voice: +61-2-6274 1066 > ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA fax: +61-2-6274 1333 > > > > >