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Bill dehOra writes: > To quote someone who knew a bit about metadata: > > "I saw that one enquiry only gave occasion to another, that book > referred to book, that to search was not always to find, and to > find was not always to be informed." > > Sam Johnson said that in 1753. We're still nowhere really. Go back further and blame the early medieval monks -- they're the ones (in western Europe, anyway) who started scribbling notes in the margins of books so that people could look up references in other books[*]. The Web is simply an incremental improvement on their system. All the best, David [*] Note that a book is a fully random-access scroll, a technical prerequisite for dense linking. -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/
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