> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:47 AM
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> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration
> n+1 (was Re: [xml-dev] 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.
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