At 5:54 PM 26/5/97, Simon Cox wrote:
> <meta > is so loosely defined it is
>turning into a generic extension holder in rather poorly
>defined ways (because rigorous methods are not available)! )
In the 60's, my community, the librarians, defined meta data so tightly in
the MARC standard, that we are loth to repeat our mistakes. Too many tight
definitions produces a format which, for a book for instance costs as much
to generate the meta data as the cost of the book itself. Much worse, even
if you can copy what somebody else has done (mostly 80% of the time), the
local variations and procedural elaborations might create another 20%.
Avoid our mistakes.
Tony
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