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> -----Original Message----- > From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:47 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Semantic Web permathread, iteration > n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold) > > Beyond the issue of lying metadata, there's a much more > important distinction between metadata based search engines > like the semantic web and data based engines like Google. > Providing metadata requires extra effort which is roughly > proportional to the quality and amount of the metadata to be > provided. There is a noticeable cost for a site to add > metadata. I used to agree with this and loved to quote Cory Doctorow's Metacrap article but the rise of RSS has changed my mind. There is now quite a lot of metadata out there, created for free from tools that completely integrated content creation with metadata creation. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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