Re: Content-Carrier Proposal

When we start streaming groceries, I will give up making sense of metadata entirely.

On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> On 2/3/13 3:30 PM, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Karen Coyle
>>> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
>>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>>> skype: kcoylenet
> 
> -- 
> Karen Coyle
> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
> ph: 1-510-540-7596
> m: 1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet
>

Received on Sunday, 3 February 2013 22:01:25 UTC