- From: James Whitescarver <jim@njit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:17:38 -0500
- To: Nick Arnett <narnett@verity.com>, xspace-talk@lightbulb.com
- CC: meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk, www-talk@w3.org, se-dev@franz.ww.tu-berlin.de
Nick Arnett wrote to www-talk@w3.org: > > At 10:54 AM 3/18/97 -0500, Michael Mealling wrote: > . > > Here's an example of the breadth and depth of meta-information: every time a > user saves a bookmark to a page, especially in a named subcategory, that's > at least one piece of meta-information. That categorization is usually > valuable at least to the individual who created it, if not others. > > Nick Arnett Good point Nick. In fact this is exactly the problem we are facing trying to handle shared network objects for collaborative systems. We need meta information added by readers to be selectively sharable (ratings, votes, catagorizations, annotations, activities etc.). We see this as the next great challage for WWW-- truly collaborative information on the web (participatory entropy reduction). The web already handels the data, now we need to manage information about the data from multiple perspectives. See http://eies.njit.edu/~jim/ais97.html The Apple MCF format, http://mcf.research.apple.com, seems well suited to this purpose since it provides for independent meta information (.mcf files) applicable to any object not just HTML with zero overhead for those not using meta info. What will be needed is not only diretories of schema, but also fully decentralized directories of selectively available meta information (free meta servers?) with extensible schema. We will happily partner with those working in this area. jim@njit.edu, http://www.njit.edu/CCCC/Staff/Whitescarver
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