This is an initial attempt at creating a list with components that are OK (or even good) to use. This wiki page serves as input for the related FAQ: ​http://www.clarin.eu/faq/3491

Components with controlled vocabularies

• For languages:
  • (with fallback to string): ​cmdi-language
  • (short list): ​iso-639-1
  • (long list): ​iso-639-3
• For language families: ​iso-639-5
• For countries: ​iso-3166-1-alpha2
• For continents: ​iso-continent
• For mimetypes: ​cmdi-mimetype

Other components

• Description: ​cmdi-description
• General Location: ​cmdi-location
• General Media file (sound, video, picture, time series): ​media-file
• Annotation associated with a media file ​WrittenResource
• Data belonging to a single recording (media, annotations): ​media-annotation bundle
• Basic Actor ​Actor. You might also consider extended versions of this basis component with more actor information: for social/ethnological data ​Actor, in speech corpora ​media-actor