[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: A Plea for Schemas
For what it's worth (and my opinion and $2.50 will buy you a latte at Starbucks), I agree pretty much completely with your rant (except for the gratuitous dig at the HyTime guys, who History Will Prove Were On The Side of Right). XML doesn't address the problems of interoperability at the level you're talking about, and neither does RDF. What you're talking about, unfortunately, is establishing standardized controlled vocabularies, and those are a ton of work. They're hellish enough to develop in a relatively small, cohesive community like librarians. There's no way in hell you're going to get competing companies to sit down at a table long enough to do this. I suspect what this will probably mean is a variety of grass-roots efforts where people in particular communities who care enough will establish their own schemas with controlled vocabularies, and if they see enough use, software companies that deal with those communities will start altering their software to make use of that fact. I see a possible danger here in that this might start reifying intellectual boundaries between communities and make it harder to search for information outside your common field of intellectual practice. Schema repositories will help this problem somewhat by making schemas for intellectual domains you're not familiar with more generally available, but getting those up and running will also involve a lot of hard work. TANSTAAFL still holds as a universal principle. But for those who really care about trying to achieve interoperability and more open exchange of information, XML will still be used. Jerome McDonough -- jmcdonou@l... | (......) Library Systems Office, 386 Doe, U.C. Berkeley | \ * * / Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-5168 | \ <> / "Well, it looks easy enough...." | \ -- / SGNORMPF!!! -- From the Famous Last Words file | |||| xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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