[DDI-users] Capturing more metadata about dataFiles and otherMats

[Mark R. Diggory]

Hello all,

It seems to me, IMHO, that the <othermat> and <filedscr> tags provided 
in the DDI don't really provide adequate metadata about file based 
resources (and possibly db based resources as well).  Has there been any 
thought about adding more salient attributes for these things? Something 
more along the lines of METS file tag.

<file ID="FILE003" MIMETYPE="audio/mpeg" SIZE="8238866" 
CREATED="2001-05-18" FILENAME="beame.mp3">
            <FLocat LOCTYPE="URL">
                http://dlib.nyu.edu/tamwag/beame.mp3
            </FLocat>
</file>

We need to store more info for things like mimetype and fileName hints. 
While there is a <fileName> tag for fileDscr's, its definition is vague 
and simply suggests some "title" for the file. Also there is nothing 
similar in nature for otherMats, fields like labl and notes are somewhat 
too vague and too generalized. 

Are there any thoughts on this?

thanks,
Mark