- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:15:29 -0800
- To: "'Michael Mealling'" <michaelm@rwhois.net>, "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Cc: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>, Alex Hopmann <alexhop@microsoft.com>
I totally agree. I believe that the Web Collections spec is our best hope for a unified frame work for meta data. It has been completely re-written. It is still not clear who the final authors will be but SoftQuad, the W3C, IBM, Apple, and Microsoft are all working feverishly away on the draft. Yaron >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Mealling [SMTP:michaelm@rwhois.net] >Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 1997 8:03 AM >To: Judith Slein >Cc: Yaron Goland; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org >Subject: Re: Open Issues -- Attributes > >Judith Slein wrote: >> >> At 08:43 PM 2/7/97 PST, Yaron Goland wrote: >> >> >1. It is impossible to require that the end of a link point back to its >> >source as this could require a server to server interaction and we do >> >not wish to involve ourselves in those issues. As has been previously >> >indicated, server to server issues are a quagmire and we don't want to >> >get stuck there. It is felt we can provide a useful specification w/out >> >having to deal w/server to server. >> >> Speaking for the document management camp, attributes are centrally >> important to the services we provide. And probably the most important use >> of attributes for us is as a way to search for documents. That means that >> we have to be able to figure out what document a given attributes belongs >> to. Will Microsoft have an interest in this, too? You can already assign >> attributes, including custom attributes, to documents created by MS tools. >> Surely the day is coming when it will be possible to search based on the >> values of those attributes. Will the Web be part of this picture? > >Searching is one part of metadata (and one of the ones I'm interested >in) >but there are so many other applications that all depend on the metadata >being there. We have to get the metadata creation as close to the actual >resource origination point as possible in order to get good data in >the system. This is why I think we have to make sure we get it right. > >> I'll send separate mail on the Warwick Framework which tries to do some >> bundling of attributes, potentially using MIME multipart content to do the >> bundling. > >The Warwick Framework would be my suggestion as well. Now whether or not >that Warwick collection is bound to the resource(s) by a link or by >some other method ( a META method? ) is argueable. I don't think the >metadata should be part of the resource since metadata can change >without the resource changing. > >Anyway, I just wanted to re-iterate what Judith said since WEBDAV >has the greatest opportunity to actually do metadata correctly... > >-MM > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- >Michael Mealling | 505 Huntmar Park Drive | Phone: (703)742-0400 >Software Engineer | Herndon, VA 22070 | Fax: (703)742-9552 >Network Solutions | <URL:http://www.netsol.com> | michaelm@rwhois.net >
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