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Walter Underwood <wunder@i...> writes: > So I still put my money on Jane Austen or the OED over the > card catalog. Heck, I'll put my money on Fanny Burney or > 40,000 Words over the card catalog. The second example is an interesting choice. After all, the full OED would probably count as metadata to people who bother to make the distinction: it contains headwords and subheadwords, grammatical information, and definitions, but the bulk of the dictionary is made up of references to other printed works (word in context citations), just as the bulk of Yahoo! is made up of references to other Web sites. So, is the OED content or metadata? I dunno -- that's why I try to avoid the terms whenever I can. This is a long-standing problem though. In my former field, Medieval studies, there are numerous examples of originally marginal glosses and commentary (metadata?) becoming independently-distributed texts (content?). All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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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