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): [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438111 cmdi-language]
   * (short list): [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438109 iso-639-1]
   * (long list): [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438110 iso-639-3]
 * For language families: [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438108 iso-639-5]
 * For countries: [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438104 iso-3166-1-alpha2]
 * For continents: [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438105 iso-continent]
 * For mimetypes: [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438106 cmdi-mimetype]

  
== Other components ==

 * Description: [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438118 cmdi-description]
 * General Location: [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438112 cmdi-location]
 * General Media file (sound, video, picture, time series): [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1336550377512 media-file]
 * Annotation associated with a media file [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1337163583919 WrittenResource]
 * Data belonging to a single recording (media, annotations): [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1336550377515 media-annotation bundle]
 * Basic Actor [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1271859438158 Actor]. You might also consider extended versions of this basis component with more actor information: for social/ethnological data [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1390399932748 Actor], in speech corpora [http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry?item=clarin.eu:cr1:c_1337163583920 media-actor]