Thanks to those who gave me comments on my earlier e-mail regarding marking
up the Web-sites of European R and D projects. (I hope I replied to you all,
if not, my sincere apologies.)
I have two issues to raise:
First, I'd be extremely grateful if anyone would like to try out and comment
on an on-line mark-up tool that our ADVISER II project
(http://ADVISEReu.vws.co.uk), European Fourth Framework Telematics
Applications Programme, has developed that allows anyone to generate
meta-tags for their web-site. I would be delighted to receive any comments
(even critical ones) regarding the value and useability of such a
scheme.These would form part of the peer review for a Deliverable that will
be supplied to DGXIII and made public.
You can access the tool at:
http://vwsnt1.vws.co.uk/adviser/adviserhomepage/disclaimer.html
There is further information on the thinking behind it, at
http://vwsnt1.vws.co.uk/adviser/adviserhomepage/eurmi.html.
The tool is unashamedly context-dependent, which brings me to my second issue:
We made it so, because project Web-pages are contexual and are not
document-like. How can this be integrated into a Dublin Core
'context-independent', 'document-like' approach? Can anyone explain for my
specific little problem, how this can best be achieved, please?
Given that the World and its Significant Other, will through XML and the
like soon be let loose in generating context after context, how will Dublin
Core be able to fit in with a multi-context world?
I should add that we have chosen an approach equivalent to only one tag per
page, having discovered that there are millions of lazy, stupid, ignorant
people like me who will not mark things up any more than they have to.
Very grateful for comments on any/all of this.
Bill Whyte,
School of Computer Studies,
University of Leeds
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