- From: Dirk Herr-Hoyman <dirk@hotoffice.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 07:01:43 -0500
- To: weibel@oclc.org (Stu Weibel)
- Cc: search@mail.mccmedia.com, advax@triumf.ca, meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk, www-html@w3.org
At 07:51 AM 4/23/97 -0400, Stu Weibel wrote: >Andrew Daviel writes: > >> We need a consensus on how to specify metadata for non-HTML Web objects, >> IMO. > >The infrastructure for supporting metadata of non-html Web objects is >not now in place, but will be within the year. It is PICS-ng. > >The modification of existing PICS specification will result in a system >that is interoperable, widely deployed, and will support the >specification, creation, and management of a wide variety of metadata, >including Dublin Core-style descriptors. > Stu, can you give us a URL to look at the PICS spec? >In my judgement, investing time and energy in other approaches is >redundant and will not likely result in solutions before the PICS >technology is mature. Heh-heh. I was thinking the same thing about URN/URC about 4 years ago. Nonetheless, one solution is better than many here, so I hope that one will emerge, and perhaps PICS will be the one. -- Dirk Herr-Hoyman <dirk@hotoffice.com> HotOffice Technologies http://www.hotoffice.com
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