DCMI Type Format Working Group
| Name: | DCMI Type Format Working Group |
| Type: | Working Group |
| Status: | Finished |
| Charter: | This working group is focusing on the usage and recommended content for the Resource Type and Format elements of the Dublin Core metadata standard. This working group is inactive. This working group has been split into two different working group: DCMI Type and DCMI Format. |
| Moderator/Chair: |
Simon Cox Rebecca Guenther Diann Rusch-Feja |
| Established: |
Milestones/Deliverables
| Scheduled Milestone | Description | Editor/Contact | Status/History |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC Type Draft Report, 1998-10-23 | Type element | Simon Cox | Final Version of the Report on Resource Type for Simple DC |
| DC Format Draft Report, 1998-10-23 | Format element | Simon Cox | Report on Format for Simple DC |
| DC Type Draft Report, 1998-09-18 | Type element | Simon Cox | Report on Resource Type for Simple DC |
| DC Type Draft Report, 1998-08-08 | Type element | Simon Cox | Report on Resource Type for Simple DC |
| DC Type Draft Report, 1998-07-23 | Type element | Simon Cox | Report on Resource Type for Simple DC |
| DC Format Draft Report, 1998-07-23 | Format element | Simon Cox | Report on Format for Simple DC |
| DC Type Draft Report, 1998-07-10 | Type element | Simon Cox | Report on Resource Type for Simple DC |
| DC Format Draft Report, 1998-07-10 | Format element | Simon Cox | Report on Format for Simple DC |
Open Issues
A list of as yet unresolved issues, or those ideas or problems that are still under discussion.
Resource Type
Dublin Core™ Resource Types: Open Issues - 1998-10-16
Editor: Simon Cox, CSIRO Exploration & Mining
Please note that this is an informal list of current issues of which we are aware. The sequence and organisation are not necessarily significant.
Cross-community study of existing lexicons and models of resource types
are we happy with event?
Subtypes text (huge hierarchy of document types)
image (moving vs. still, symbolic graphics vs. representations)
*.collection?> need to group type with accompanying format element for compound resources
the 1:1 principle and compound/mixed resources
Format
Dublin Core™ Format Element: Open Issues - 1998-10-16
Editor: Simon Cox, CSIRO Exploration & Mining
Please note that this is an informal list of current issues of which we are aware. The sequence and organisation are not necessarily significant.
types of format elements: format.size vs format.media
structure of format.size: different sizes - eg. mass vs linear, duration vs. bytes, pixels vs linear vs bytes
different aspects of a size - length vs breadth vs depth> measurement units for format.size - is this a "scheme"?
media types for non-electronic formats
nested formats, eg. compressed, archives
need to group type with accompanying format element for compound resources
grouping multiple values of format together, eg size+media
the 1:1 principle and compound/mixed resource
History
- Date deactivated: 1998-11-04
- Superceded by DCMI Type working group and DCMI Format working group.
- Past Members:
- Arthur Chapman
- Jack Gilding
- Roy Tennant
- Diann Rusch-Feja
- Andrew Daviel
- Jon Knight
- Rebecca Guenther
- Jordan Reiter
- John Kunze
- Ricky Erway
- Gail Clement
- Mary Larsgaard
- Simon Cox
- David Bearman
- Stu Weibel
- Bernhard Eversberg
- Amy Tracy Wells
- Andy Powell
- Linda Hill
Related Work
- IMS Module Types - see I--Type ( http://www.imsproject.org/technical/metadata/library/DID177.htm)
- Alexandria Digital Library Thesaurus of Information Object Types ( http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/objtype_html/index.htm)
- UKOLN's proposed Collection Types ( http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cld/types)
- Getty Information Institute Art & Architecture Thesaurus - see in particular Object Genres and Materials Facet ( http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/aat_browser/)
- IANA list of Internet Media Types (MIME values) ( http://www.isi/edu./in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types)
- USMARC Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions. Subject/Index Term Sources: Field 655 (Genre/Form) ( http://www.loc.gov/marc/reltors/re9806su.html#re98655b)
- Delsey's The Logical Structure of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - Part 1 ( http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/aacrdel.htm)
- (UCSD) Special Collections GENRE TYPES ( http://tpot.used.edu/SPC/Special/lc2.html)
- Andrew Daviel's list of external type vocabularies - mostly bibliographic
Resources
- Andrew Daviel's list of external type vocabularies - mostly bibliographic
- Roy Tennant's Structuralist draft