To which you just have to add "Standards, standards, standards".
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From: Weibel,Stu [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 November 1999 19:24
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Subject: RE: From embedded metadata to repository
Starting a metadata project using embedded metadata and moving later to a
separate metadata repository is a reasonable way to bootstrap a project on
resource description. Doing so obviates the need to build the metadata
repository right away (the Web provides the infrastructure) while allowing
progress to be made in the metadata creation phase right from the start.
Extracting the metadata later should be simple, requiring only a parser that
will read the tags and write them out in a way suitable for processing by
the repository.
If your intent is to create the metadata in HTML META tags, your application
will be limited by the (lack of) structural richness inherent in HTML. If
your data is tagged in XML (certainly a more complicated option), you will
have more options to structure the metadata, and will be better positioned
to transition to an XML or RDF-based repository down the road. In any of
these cases, a clear understanding of what level of richness you want in the
end will be useful for guiding design decisions at the beginning. Even
using HTML, careful adherence to a set of local conventions you implement
will help you plan for functionality that is best supported in an XML or RDF
based environment. The HTML is unlikely to be widely interoperable, but it
will allow you to later pipe the data into a repository system that can more
easily be made interoperable with other systems.
stu
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Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:43 PM
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Subject: From embedded metadata to repository
For reasons related to time, cost and other business priorites I am looking
at
starting with embedding metadata in html files in the short term with a
desire
to move to a repository in the longer term.
Has anyone been through this process and can you offer any advice on any
aspect
of it?
For example, I am have been told that it would not be difficult to extract
the
embedded metadata at a later stage once a repository is available. Any
comments?
Thanks
Kathleen Lazzari
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