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Mary Larsgaard wrote: > > Many thanks for your work in putting together the documents for > DC Type and DC Format. Re Format: Alexandria Digital Library started > out using MIME types as our operating list, and quickly found out that > they were insufficient. You might want something like, " use MIME types > whenever possible." Point taken. But did you realise that it is relatively straightforward to add types to the MIME list ... Did the ADL project consider augmenting the list? Are the anomalies sufficiently well understood that this is something about which there would be enough agreement to consider such a course of action? > Re the Type document: how about some other word/phrase > than "Data"? Everything is data, and especially in the context > of Web resources, everything is data. Perhaps something that means > "database and spreadsheet fodder." Hmm. In principle I take your point, but in this case I believe that the word "data" is a label - and the semantics are sufficiently distinct, given that many of the boundaries are a little bit fuzzy anyway. We are talking "simple resource discovery" here. Do you have any other suggestions? -- __________________________________________________ Dr Simon Cox - Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre CSIRO Exploration & Mining, PO Box 437, Nedlands, WA 6009 Australia T: +61 8 9389 8421 F: +61 8 9389 1906 [log in to unmask] http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/SimonCox/