- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:38:38 +0900
- To: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
- CC: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, 'Ian Hickson' <ian@hixie.ch>, 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>, www-international@w3.org, Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>
Andrew Cunningham wrote: > On Fri, August 22, 2008 2:50 pm, Felix Sasaki wrote: > > > >>> Good question. But most typical metadata (author, title, summary,...) >>> isn't really actionable either. >>> >>> >> There are organizations, e.g. digital libraries, who care a lot about >> the creation of metadata in HTML, including author, title etc., and who >> make it actionable for e.g. their search facilities. Compared to the >> whole web this is a minority for sure, but I think such use cases should >> be taken into account as well, since they could help moving the "chicken >> and egg" problem of metadata content and metadata processing tools >> moving forward. >> >> > > although Digital Libraries, DOMS, federated search, etc all use metdata > extensively, they use much more thorough and exacting metadata standards. > > DC, OAI, OLAC, METS, MODS, and all sorts of other standards. > > Likewise, many government metadata standards are more comprehensive. > > So I doubt there would be much practical application of metadata vis-a-vis > HTML5 except in terms of other metadata standards being embedded in HTML5. > Agree, I was thinking of esp. the scenario of embedded meta data. I think Henry did not separate in his question about "actionable metadata" whether it is embedded or not. Felix
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