- From: Renato Iannella <renato@dstc.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:58:52 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Having read the patent application, my comment would be that the ideas in the proposal are what has been discussed and developed over the last few years. There are similar systems that index structured information in HTML files, and provide a search interface to the repository. There are also current tools for the creation of such structured information (metadata). The comparision to other technologies (META, XML, VCard etc) is misleading. Its like saying 'a cat is no good at being a tiger since its not big enough' ! The description of Dublin Core is _very misleading_. Dublin Core (which been going now for over 3 years) is an initiative that provides (with real systems working) what this patent proposal describes - structured subject descriptions in HTML. The proposal fails to include a description of RDF. RDF will (and has) provided all the markup features described in the proposal - royalty free. Cheers... Renato _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dr Renato Iannella http://www.dstc.edu.au/renato/ DSTC Pty Ltd phone://61.7/3365.4310 Uni Qld, 4072, AUSTRALIA fax://61.7/3365.4311 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7th International WWW Conference 14-18 Apr'98 http://www7.conf.au
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