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This sounds like a great idea.  Some of the work that Ron Daniel, CNRI
and my group has been doing regarding interfaces to digital objects is
right up this alley.  I'd like to share and hear other peoples thinking
on this issue.

Carl

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	William Y. Arms [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
	Sent:	Tuesday, September 23, 1997 5:47 PM
	To:	Weibel,Stu
	Cc:	X-List meta2; [log in to unmask]
	Subject:	Resource Types and Interoperability

	Stu,

	At a system level, resource types are fundamental to
interoperability among
	digital libary systems.  MIME types have done a wonderful job,
but library
	information needs richer forms of typing.  I would be interested
in hearing
	from people who are actually building systems that use resource
types to
	interoperate, but should we do this outside the meta2 list?  

	Bill



	At 02:46 PM 9/23/97 -0400, Weibel,Stu wrote:
	>Gary's dissatisfaction with Roy's TYPE scheme amplifies what
Robin is
	>alluding to in her message... that
	>there will be a number of such TYPE schemes, most likely
organized
	>around specific domains. 
	>
	>Why not collect a few that people want to use now, do a quick
pass over
	>them to consolidate obvious 
	>duplications and start using them.  Yes we'd be better off in
the long
	>run if there was a single list
	>but a modest number of small sets might cover the majority of
	>possibilities, and enable us to build a better,
	>consoilidated one based on experience.
	>
	>stu
	>

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