- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:51:18 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
- To: Terry Allen <tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com>
Terry Allen wrote: > > These "metadocuments" sound to me exactly like "the real, full > document with all its trimmings." I know SGMLllers are used to thinking > about the marked-up text as distinct from the style sheet, etc., > but for the purposes of publishing that text, the whole ball of > stuff can be considered to be not document+meta, but just > document (including some meta, nothing wrong with that). Yeah verily! This is the "minimally constraining" view -- it allows folks to manage data however they choose -- lump the content and the metadata together, or store them separately and link them. ----------- Axioms of Web Architecture: 2 Tim Berners-Lee Date: Januray 6, 1997 http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/DesignIssues/Metadata.html Documents, Metadata, and Links The thing which you get when you follow a link, when you de-reference a URI, has a lot of names. Formally we call it a resource. Sometimes it is referred to as a document because many of the things currently on the Web are human readable documents. Sometimes it is referred to as an object when the object is something which is more machine readable in nature or has hidden state. I will use the words document and resource interchangeably in what follows and sometimes may slip into using "object". ----------- See also: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Architecture/Terms#document Dan
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