Hi Dimitri,
Philosophical ramblings of what's data and what's meta-data aside, the
reality is that metadata has been living inside of data quite
comfortably on the Web. I can't understand why you would want to have
it any other way. Honestly, I am struggling here.
The issue is that there is metadata which conceptually lives
*alongside* the document:
* how long is it
* when was it last accessed
* when was it last modified
* who most recently viewed
These are the kinds of things that should NOT be inside the document
-- imagine the loop of trying to continually recalculate a document
which contains a description of its own length, or keeping track of
last-modified time that way...
In addition, there are some formats which simply do not allow useful
metadata to live inside them -- e.g., GIFs, if I recall correctly.
I absolutely agree that much of what is called metadata belongs in
the document, and should be kept there. But, we do need something for
the "true" metadata, which really does live alongside (meta) data.
-- Ernie P.
On Apr 14, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
On 4/14/06, Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Putting on a different hat, I'll point out another option ...
put the metadata *in* the data:
http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp
For the descriptive metadata for which this is appropriate,
you don't need a separate URI, the latency of a separate
GET request, etc.
... and this takes us all the way back to good old plain HTML. Gotta
love the merry-go-round :)
Philosophical ramblings of what's data and what's meta-data aside, the
reality is that metadata has been living inside of data quite
comfortably on the Web. I can't understand why you would want to have
it any other way. Honestly, I am struggling here.
:DG<
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