- From: rich boakes <rich@boakes.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:59:10 +0100
- To: muguet@ensta.fr
- CC: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Dr. Francis MUGUET wrote: > ...metadata have been spoilt > by pornographers... > ...a secret war going out there. > > One goal of a SWgTLD is a get clean, > unspoilt, METADATA. Sites that are > purposedly spoiling their metadata, > are removed from the SWgTLD registry. There is no such thing as clean unspoiled metadata. Anyone who writes metadata, anyone who annotates content, and in fact, anyone who creates the content in the first place, has a reason for doing so: *everyone* is biased. The important thing with metadata is it's provenance: if you know the origin of a piece of information, you can decide how much you wish it to affect the representation of the web that you see. All that spoiled, biased, metadata is what makes the semantic web different from the web. Where once there were links, now there are machine interpretable opinion. I just can't see the need for a gTLD, it offers nothing that services in the existing web cannot provide. Rich -- http://semanticcomputing.org/
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