- From: James Whitescarver <jim@njit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:41:08 -0500
- To: didier ph martin <dmartin@cedep.com>
- CC: W3 org <www-talk@w3.org>, c2134.3cc50@vc.njit.edu, guha@sail.stanford.edu
didier ph martin wrote: > With Guha from Apple Research, we worked to improved the orginal MCF file > format to now integrate URNs. We also tried to integrate new trend about > typing for Meta Content (also called profiles). We came with a new spec > which is located at http://www.netfolder.com/SDK/index.htm > My initial reaction: Bingo! I think you folks are on to something here. 1. Your Name Space Library in NetFolders is useful, thanks! (what about supporting Netscape?). 2. Profiles should nicely support the organic growth of a wide variety meta schema without chaos. 3. Including the URN and RFC822 in MCF v1.1 format seems a natural way to get meta info for an object along with redirection to locations from any URI in general. It looks promising! Can we reinvent existing RFC822 defined headers (mail, nntp, http, etc.) as imbedible MCF profiles? ------------------------------------------------------------- Still to be answered are: 1. granularity: addressing bit sub-strings, elements, or time segments on objects by structure or query. 2. meaning: we need a standard way to represent profiles and profile mappings, e.g. in KIF 3. sharing: personal, group, organization, global/public, and owner meta information needs to be seamlessly combined to provide complete meta-information from the user perspective. THis might be accompleshed during URN/URI resolution. (see http://eies.njit.edu/~jim/ais97.html) jim, http://www.njit.edu/CCCC/Staff/Whitescarver
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