I guess most of us have become avid readers of other people's metadata. I have.
This raises the question about whether we should keep in mind that these tags
should be designed to be human readable as well as machine readable. I have
been moving quite a lot of information off the display side of the screen into
the metadata in the belief that humans will be reading it as well as machines.
Do you think this is wrong thinking ?
Following the discussion about dates (earlier in the year), I have been
sticking to my belief that a date is unambiguously human readable in the form
14th September 1997 rather than 19970914 which I don't think is a human
friendly form.
Regards to you all and hoping for a reply...
Simon Pockley
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