- From: Kenji Takahashi <kt@nttlabs.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:00:10 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, kt@nttlabs.com
>If we have a simple external format for metadata, we can send a >document and its metadata together using multipart/related. I like this idea too. BTW, it seems to me that there is a general consensus on treating attributes (or metadata) as usual resources. Right? But I have questions about this... 1. How to define metadata of metadata? For example, if you lock the metadata independently, you have to keep track of lock status of metadata. This is an infinite chain.... 2. How to maintain the consistency between contents and their metadata? If we handle independently these two, we always have this problem. Anyway you need to lock both to modify metadata if you would like to ensure the consistency. 3. When is it useful to manipulate the metadata independently from contents? At last, metadata are metadata of something. Best regards, Kenji
Received on Wednesday, 13 November 1996 14:00:06 UTC