Re: Best Practice 2 - Title and the use of the term format

Hi Laufer,


I like your proposal for the the BP title. "Provide metadata for both
humans and machines".

I'm gonna review the document to see where format is used and how it
should be qualified.

Thanks,
Bernadette

2015-01-19 10:43 GMT-03:00 Laufer <laufer@globo.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> The term format is being used in the text in different contexts and can
> confuse the reader.
>
> The title of Best Practice 2 is: "Provide metadata in different formats"
>
> Then we have a kind of subtitle: "Metadata should be provided for both
> humans and machines"
>
> So the formats are (I guess): human-readable; machine-readable.
>
> In the text of BP2 we have: "Metadata for machines is best provided either
> as an alternative representation of the Web page in a format such as Turtle
> or JSON-LD (for RDF)...."
>
> We have also file formats: XML, CSV, JSON...
>
> Maybe we have to qualify the term format when we use it. So, Turtle is a
> serialization format, CSV is a file format, etc.
>
> ====
>
> I propose a more straight title to BP2: "Provide metadata for both humans
> and machines"
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> Best,
> Laufer
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Bernadette Farias Lóscio
Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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