[tei-council] some questions about non-textual components and media

[Gabriel Bodard]

On 18/12/2012 19:41, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Do remember that if I meet
>   	<media target="foo.mp4"/>
> and
> 	<media target="foo.tiff"/>
> I really really really don't want to work out that I should use <video> for one, and <img>
> for the other, by looking at file suffixes. Either let's have <video> and <audio>,
> or mandate mime types.
>
> I suspect actually that I could decide to pull the audio from a video file
> using HTML <audio>, so thats another reason not to use <media>, because
> it is not precise enough  - what aspect of the media did the author include?

I'd actually prefer to have something generic like <media> (of which 
<graphic> is a specialization, and possible audio and video too, if you 
really want) and both mandate @mimetype and something like @medium if 
you want to be able to pull audio only from a video file (or a still 
frame from a multimedia file) or something. I'm sure there are media 
that don't easily fit into one of graphic, video, audio that we might 
want to include in here as well (QTVR; Powerpoint; interactive maps; 
embedded app; holographic projector) so let's be as generic and agnostic 
as possible.

G

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