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Hmm, this DAS looks pretty nice. Instead of attempting to solve all metadata problems at once, they just focus on one important area where there is a concern about metadata becoming Balkanized and attack that. I bet that this project will be a continuing source of important lessons about implementing web-based and xml-based metadata sharing. > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:40 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: bioinformatics, XML > > Some interesting bits popping up. > > http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1109 > > My favorite bit: > ----------------------------- > Perhaps commenting on Ewan Birney's earlier remarks about how he has > become > unhappy with XML due to it's high amount of overhead, Lincoln quipped "XML > is the worst possible solution, except for all the other solutions." While > it is clear the overhead associated with XML can be problematic with some > of the huge datasets used in bioinformatics, it seems to be working like a > champ in DAS. > ----------------------------- > > For more on the concerns, see: > http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1099 > ----------------------------- > One of his comments, that he is no longer so happy with XML as once he was, > prompted a question from the audience after the keynote. He expanded on > that comment, saying that he finds XML verbose (not a good thing when your > data sets are already huge) and that most often the schemas are poorly > designed and tools poorly implemented. When schemas and tools are designed > and implemented well, he approves. > ------------------------------ > > That last bit doesn't seem too surprising. > > Simon St.Laurent > Associate Editor, O'Reilly & Associates > http://simonstl.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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