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At 02:02 PM 12/1/99 -0800, Walter Underwood wrote: >I disagree on this one. It's rare that metacontent is more >valuable than content, long-term. I'll bet on the books over >the card catalog, every time. Wow, that's a profoundly deep and strong statement, and I think at the core of the argument that *should* be happening about how to make the Web a better place. In fairness, it should be said that Walter works for a company whose search engine does the equivalent of reading all the pages of all the books on all the shelves, and trying to guess what the books mean. I used to be in that business myself. But I think metadata wins. If you count hits on Internet search engines, the Yahoo and ODP directories, which are both human-constructed metadata, absolutely wipe out any fulltext search engine you can name, even though they have orders of magnitude less sites and a lower volume of information about each. Because human-constructed metadata wins on the net just like it did in the library. RDF is important because it can facilitate the interchange of, and a certain number of the common uses of, this kind of metadata. Anyhow, just because you have a card catalogue doesn't mean you throw the library books away. -Tim 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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