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Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
Article is a good entry into Dublin Core as much for it's observation about now. There will certainly be ongoing debate about whether other (older) metadata standards are just fine, thank you, but nevertheless I think it's something well worth understanding. I must interject on one point at least:
"What we need is for Web pages to categorize themselves, which categorizations could then be computer-read and -collected. It's already possible, but it ain't happening. Dublin Core metadata can be added to any Web page and allow you to categorize their subject-matter on a range of criteria, including Library of Congress and other bibliographic classifications (much more applicable to the Web than is generally known), author name, free-form subject text, and more."
yes, but you can't push the costs (general sense) onto each person to do, they have to see benefit or they won't do it at all, hence only a few extremists (right now) doing this for random pages. If the beneficiary is the consumer of the page, and there is no benefit to the producer to tag (other than audience, which we can't say we'll "monetize" later), then tags have to be added by the consumers. Hence one of the drivers for automated categorization solutions.
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