Hal Cain <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>That seems to urge caution in defining new material-specific fields. On
>existing material-specific fields (and scatter of related information),
>the horse has presumably long since left the stable; but why open more
>stalls?
Perhaps *one* field should be assigned for use by all new media needing
a medium specific field, whether already assigned ones are folded into
it or not.
The point concerning the impact of format integration is a good one.
Separate medium specific fields are not in keeping with format
integration.
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