Internet
World has a nice
Story that likens the internet to a library where
books are strewn across the floor rather than arranged
in neatly organized stacks. They say libraries have
\”metadata\”: specific descriptive elements like \”subject\”
and \”author\” that are recorded and indexed in a
standardized way, unlike the net, which is a big mess.
Maybe The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative will finally
take off.?
\”What we see is that the necessary expertise to
develop metadata applications is declining,\” says
Stuart Weibel, co-director of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative.
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