On Thu, 10 May 2001 david at aminal.com wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:40:18AM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote: > > >From toad <matthew at toseland.f9.co.uk> > > > > >It is a real problem because Brandon and others want to use highly > > >descriptive human written metadata, for example the Dublin Core stuff > > >includes several fuzzy fields. > > > > What's the point of attaching this highly descriptive stuff to the file at > > all? > > Wouldn't this belong in an seperate indexing/searching layer? The sort of > > metadata you need in a CHK is stuff like content-type or part-number or > > whatever, that lets you interpret the data you have, not author or keywords > > or > > subject (that lets you find or categorize the data) > > > > -- > > Benjamin Coates > > > > > > The point of putting it in the same package is validation. Hard to dispute > that > the metadata was meant to refer to the data if it's in the same package. Thats hardly a reason. If the metadata points to the CHK of the data thats an equally strong binding. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
