[Dspace-general] dc.format

[Beth Tillinghast]

Aloha,

I have a question about an element's use in the metadata schema for 
our DSpace instance. I notice many, but not all, DSpace instances use 
the dc.format.extent and the dc.format.mimetype elements and 
qualifiers. I am curious if there is a best-practices reason for this 
other than a nice-to-know reason. Can this information be used to 
generate certain reports, for example?

Thank you in advance for your responses,
Beth