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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> wrote: > On 4/9/13 7:33 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote: >> >> Publishing a schema (for a reasonable definition of "schema" that >> generally doesn't involve such silly things as int vs long type >> assertions) in association with a marked-up text is crucial to extending >> its longevity of interpretation. We're already losing a tremendous >> number of digital materials from the early days of digital media because >> the publishers were not conscious of this, and as the original engineers >> are lost to circumstances of the hereafter. > > > I really like the image this gives me of schemas as headstones on graves, > identifying what lies beneath... Every author is a ghost, speaking from beyond the veil of time. Any citation, any specification, any metadata may be taken as a grave marker. Or is there something specific to schemas, as formal structural specification, that makes this analogy more apt? David
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