Re: [emergency] <resourceDesc> (aka Issue #32)

[Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>]

At 01:57 PM 12/4/2003 -0500, Allen Wyke wrote:
>[...]
>1. Eliot's
>(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/200312/msg00013.html):
>
>"The text describing the resource file."

I withdraw that suggestion after discussion on the call that clarified
what Art had intended in his response to Allen.

>2. And the one from the minutes of the call
>(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/200312/msg00016.html),
>although it put back in the very issue I had - using the word "type",
>which is redundant with <mimeType>.
>
>"The human readable text describing the type and content of the resource
>file"

Example: <resourceDesc>photo of kidnapping victim</resourceDesc>

In the example, the term "photo" conveys the "type" of the resource
file (other examples could be of type "voice", "map", "seismometer
trace" etc)