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On Jun 8, 2004, at 9:44 PM, Bill de hÓra wrote: >> > > If you look at RSS data for long enough you realize it's information > rich and that information is being produced almost totaly as > side-effect of blogging. Then maybe you go and read Metacrap, but with > your eyes opened. Not to channel Udell too often in one day, but how is that different from HTML with metadata inserted as a side effect of CSS styling? Anyway, I'm definitely not disagreeing, this is a very useful approach. > > Here's the RDF triples taken from an Atom feed with two entries, and > excluding the content and the summary. > > [snip] > I agree it ain't pretty, but it is perfectly good machine processable > metadata graph So "metadata" is "content" transformed into a more conveniently machine-processable form? OK, that does explain a lot of points that I wasn't understanding in your, or Dare's or Joshua's arguments. It's not what I thought of as metadata, or what Doctorow is flaming. I guess we need a meta-model of metadata to keep this all straight!
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