This reminds me of an attempt at MARBI last month to come up with a
simple word or phrase to encompass scores and other music notation or
instructions, or as one wag put it, "music unrealized in sound."
I take it that scores would be considered "text" in DC, even though the
definition "words for reading" might give people pause. Maybe scores
should be added to the examples...
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Simon Cox wrote:
> Kevin C. Marsh wrote:
> >
> > > text
> > > image
> > > sound
> > > data
> > > software
> > > interactive
> > > physical object
> >
> > Where would you categorize maps?
>
> If the map exists as a graphic object only,
> such as colour printed formats, then it is "image".
>
> If the map you are thinking of is actually a visualisation
> of an underlying digital dataset (eg GIS coverage)
> then you should refer to the dataset as "data",
> and the produced visualisation as "image".
> In this case there are in fact two resources.
>
> As in all things, the categories have fuzzy boundaries,
> so metadata providers have to use some judgement.
> If there is some ambiguity, where a resource might fit
> into more than one category, one response is to use
> repeated DC.Type elements, as is recommended for "Compound/Mixed".
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