....missed your reply by about half a second....
Pierre
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From: "Pete Johnston" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Linking IEEE LOM Metadata with HTML Documents
> Andy,
>
>> On the other hand, the problem with using
>> a very generic link type like 'meta' is that robots have to visit the
>> linked metadata before they can determine if it is useful to
>> them (i.e.
>> they might find LOM/XML, they might find DC/XML or they might find
>> something else at the end of the link).
>
> The proposal also recommends including a LOM/XML-specific MIME type
>
> <link rel="ieeelommetadata" type="application/ieeelom+xml" title="LOM
> Metadata" href="lom.xml" />
>
> and says they both "shall" be used.
>
> So the crawler could use that MIME info to decide whether it wants to
> dereference the target URI. I don't see why it needs _both_ the
> LOM-specific rel attribute value and the LOM/XML specific MIME type.
>
> Pete
>
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