- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 12:20:18 +0900
Le 5 janv. 2007 ? 20:12, James Graham a ?crit :
> However hand coding is still the way that most documents, and
> certianly most semantically rich documents, are produced. People
> have been expecting "the tools to save us" forever but it still
> hasn't happened. I don't see why it will be any different for
> citation data, a subject about which most authors don't care a jot.
Weblogs are exactly the counter-argument of this.
Weblogs have done structured metadata BECAUSE of tools
author
title
content
date
plus now
tag, keywords for example.
annotations (commenting system)
Flickr is another example where tools specifically made it possible.
(title, description, tags, geolocalization)
Email clients another example
Address book another example.
I think it's completely the opposite.
The issue is not about tools, it is about user benefits. Hand coding
is too costly for most humans for poor benefits. I call that usually
the VAT (Value Added Tax) and how to move this value from humans to
machine.
If having an handy form to put your data helps you to better
communicate, to use the tools in a better way, then people use it.
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