[OSC_dev] blob metadata (was: Images ?)

[Andy W. Schmeder]

The OSC 1.1 revision (which is coming soon) has a provision for  
annotating a blob with a MIME type.  There is also an n-dimensional  
matrix format in row-major order.

However these are mostly a stop-gap measure to prevent people from  
going crazy with new types. OSC will likely never reach the full-blown  
sophistication of something like XMLSchema when it comes to defining  
arbitrary structured data types.



On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:

> Well, for the former case (images, sound files), the internet is
> fortunately already well-populated with standards for file types:
> e.g, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

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Andy W. Schmeder
andy [at] cnmat.berkeley.edu

Programmer/Analyst II
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Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
University of California at Berkeley
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