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