distributionMedium.md

distributionMedium

Usage

Mandatory

Type

Open controlled vocabulary

Controlled vocabulary reference and/or values

ms:distributionMedium: webExecutable, downloadable, accessibleThroughInterface, other

Definition/Explanations

Specifies the medium (channel) used for delivering or providing access to the resource

Recommended usage

Please, use one of the provided values to indicate the medium of distribution.
For lexical/conceptual resources that can be downloaded in a specific form (e.g. excel spreadsheet, ontologies in rdf/xml format etc.) use the "downloadable" value; for SPARQL endpoints of ontologies, please use the value "webExecutable". Corpora in OpenMinTeD must be delivered always as "downloadable".