[tei-council] another High Noon proposal

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 10 Jan 2013, at 21:45, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> 
> But if you're making them all take a mime type then surely they *are* 
> all "internet media"?

only <media> has it compulsory, tho

>> Why?
> 
> Because most of us can say whether something is a video or an audio, 
> without knowing (or caring) necessarily what its internet media type is


saying
 <media type="vaizdo" url="foo.whatever">
is fine for your average Czech human, I am sure,
but it is not much use for a computer. I think these things
should be machine-readable using public standards
where possible. why invent our own ad hoc ontology
when a perfectly good one exists?

you may well ripost that the "file" command does a damn fine
job of _guessing_ mime types, but a) that is beyond the reach
of most people, and b) its not infallible.

but I may well be wrong.
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