Tony says:
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>Sounds like a job for... (da da da!) the Resource Description Framework,
>part of the metadata activities of the World Wide Web consortium that
>will provide 'Warwick Framework' type capabilities for encoding more
>complex metadata. According to my admittedly limited understanding, RDF
>is an application of XML, and describes elements of information and the
>relationships between them in terms of 'nodes' and 'arcs'. See
>http://www.w3.org/Metadata/RDF/ for more info, or alternatively ask some
>of the RDF gurus on this list.
Diane pipes up:
I dunno, but it sounds like Simon needs a thesaurus, actually. Or does
that sound too much like a librarian? ;-)
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