On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Sigfrid Lundberg, Lub NetLab wrote:
> Having run harvesting bots for
> five years, I fear more 100 different XML DTDs/Schemas, than 100 different
> RDF Schemas. It is my firm belief that normalization of the former will
> incur more manual labour than the latter, even when taking into account
> semantic drift and schemas with overlapping semantics which will be what
> RDF will give us.
>
... would this situation be less likely if DCMI were to provide an
authoritative XML DTD and XML Schema? then people would not have to invent
their own?
Rachel
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