- From: Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:16:46 +0100
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
mån 2008-03-24 klockan 12:11 +0000 skrev Booth, David (HP Software - Boston): > > 1. Surely you can't expect hyperlink to lead to the metadata? The WWW > > (socument web) relies on content-to-content links, and we > > need to build on that. > > Of course there should be a URI for the metadata! Why wouldn't there be? > > You seem to me making some kind of major underlying assumptions here > that I don't know about. If the use case could be more completely > spelled out, that might bring it to light. The case presupposes the HTML web, where <a href=""> leads to the content directly, and not to the metadata. It assumes that the link is discovered from the HTML web (from a google search, for example). The challenge is finding the metadata when the data URI is known. > > > > > 2. There is no definition in the text/plain MIME type > > registration about > > how to include machine-parsable metadata. Other conventions, such as > > using http://example.org/writings/essay#it etc, falls on the > > assumption that we want to build on top of the existing WWW. > > Right, but if you want to serve machine-processable metadata that > describes a chunk of text, why not just serve RDF for the metadata and > either include the chunk of text in an RDF assertion or include a > pointer to it? You can certainly point to existing content that way. *Can*, sure, but that's not how the billions of existing web pages already indexed and cross-linked are found. The idea is to build on top of the HTML web, not to invent a new web. /Mikael > > > > David Booth, Ph.D. > HP Software > +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com > http://www.hp.com/go/software > > Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise. > > -- <mikael@nilsson.name> Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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