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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Citations (WAS RE: W3C suckered by Microsoft?)
 Someone came back offlist with the defense that blogs are 'casual conversation' and therefore, don't qualify for citations. o How many of your casual conversations are being googled or indexed by 'bots? o How many of your casual conversations are being aggregated by a bot? o How many of your casual conversations are returned by topical queries? None, hopefully. But this is the web where that citation aggregation goes on continuously for all materials submitted to it. The web is, by its very architecture, an integrated open bibliographic hypermedia system. No content on it unless marked not to be indexed is unindexed. Unless non-serious blogs have meta tags to prevent them from being indexed, yes, the blogger has a citation obligation. But, people ignore such obligations or forget, or don't know, so the first thing a researcher might want from Google or a similar engine is a way to exclude blogs from a search. That seems draconian to me. So should one demand a means that only certain blogs, or blogs which meet certain specifications be returned by these queries? Or perhaps one uses the 'some blogs are better' metrics that page ranking uses for authoritative pages to only include subwebs which have proven to have reliable citations. Can that be gamed? Sure. But so can scholarly research papers and all we have between us and that is the reputations of the academics who edit them, which is why bad citations or the lack of them are a career destroying offense in that world. A job for the semantic web? len 
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