Re: "machine readable"

by "machines" do you mean cars, trucks, dishwashers, and laundry machines -
or do you mean computers?


Best Regards,

Steve

Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again"


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  |Laufer <laufer@globo.com>                                                                                                                         |
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Hi Laufer,

  I prefer "human readable" and "machine readable". Or we can simply say
  "for humans" and "for machines".

  Final users will be interested in "human readable" stuff. Developers will
  be interested in "machine readable" stuff. We have both audience.

That reminded me that it's actually the approach taken by CC when providing
several versions of the same content. Quoting [1], "One way of thinking
about Creative Commons is that we give a user-interface to copyright law
through our human readable deeds, machine readable metadata, and lawyer
readable licenses.".
So content can be adapted for the targeted consumer, we could maybe add one
more entry in the glossary to precise how we understand "X readable" and
explain that this understanding is shared with others (CC and probably
more)

Christophe

[1] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12778

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