On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:28:17PM +0100, Roland Schwaenzl wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:17:05PM +0100, Roland Schwaenzl wrote:
> > > > Are you saying that putting redundant information around
> > > > in various schemas is safe and practical -- the best of
> > > > the options above?
> > >
> > > One anyway will want to know, who is asserting what.
> > > Redundancy is what the net is very good for.
> >
> > If an application wanted to prefer information from
> > dublincore.org over information from somewhere else, how
> > could this be done? With reification?
>
> ...isn't the issue a typical provenance thing?
Conceptually, yes. I'm just wondering how applications can
in practice keep track of and use metadata or inferences
about provenance when data from multiple sources gets merged --
and then use that information to implement preferences about
sources.
Are you saying this problem can easily be solved?
Tom
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