Re: Content-Carrier Proposal

The question is: what about other industries? Music? Movie publishers? 
Software? Games? Groceries? I'm trying to think as broadly as possible.

kc

On 2/3/13 12:41 PM, Laura Dawson wrote:
> Outside the library world, we refer to it as "content" and "container" -
> so I don't think it's too far off.
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> On 2/3/13 3:30 PM, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
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>> Richard,
>>
>> Thanks for starting this. My first comment is that we need some good
>> definitions of "content" and "carrier." It's fairly common terminology
>> in the library world but not beyond.
>>
>> My second is that this links to a more general discussion I have been
>> thinking of starting on the general vocab list, which is about
>> "re-usable bits and facets." The content and carrier concepts are almost
>> universals and I can imagine "carrier" becoming a re-usable facet
>> available to any schemas that fine it useful. (Ditto things like
>> "location"). The library "content & carrier" could become a focus for
>> talking about how truly non-specific these concepts are and why the
>> creation of freely available facets could aid in metadata development.
>>
>> kc
>>
>> On 2/2/13 1:04 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have just added a Content-Carrier proposal to the Wiki.
>>>
>>> It does not propose extension of the vocabulary as such, but I have
>>> linked it from the Vocabulary Proposals page
>>> <http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Vocabulary_Proposals> as
>>> it is a proposal as to a recommended way to apply the current vocabulary
>>> to address an issue that concerns this group.
>>>
>>>
>>> ~Richard.
>>
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