- From: Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) <skw@hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:23:22 +0000
- To: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- CC: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, "public-awwsw@w3.org" <public-awwsw@w3.org>
Jonathan, In relation to this fragment of our our exchange... > > There is no good way for cooperating agents to communicate this > >information; consider the case of a spreadsheet rendered as text/ > > plain. There's just no place in the representation to put any > > metadata. Sure, you can choose a different representation, but I > > wouldn't call that a "good" way to communicate. The issue of out-of- > > band metadata - in the GET response, or linked from the response, or > > as the response to a different request - has been discussed recently > > on semantic-web and/or www-tag, I think. I would say this is an > > architectural deficiency, and if it's not up to the TAG to fix it, it > > should be up to some other pro-HTTP group, as this deficiency (I > > believe) has been a factor in pushing many communities away > from HTTP. > > Ok... finding authoritative resource/representation metadata > seems like a good TAG issue - its probably relevant under > httpRedirections-57. Maybe there is a finding to draft there. > > At a practical level, I'd guess that appropriate definition > of a couple of response headers each that carry URI for the > relevant metadata resources could surfice eg: > > Resource-Description: <anyURI> > Representation-Metadata: <anyURI> I have posted some thoughts on www-tag [1] because of the relation with httpRedirections-57 [2]. Basically, recapitualtion of an idea that I trace back to Jonathan Borden in 2003 [3], which resurfaced for me earlier this year and which seems relevant to surface at this time. Some discussion and basically a question as to whether its an idea with merit that needs action (which I think amounts to some internet-drafts and message header registrations - ie. IETF process) or not. Regards, Stuart -- Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN Registered No: 690597 England [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Feb/0013 [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/57 [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Mar/0006 (last para)
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