Re: design question -- localized metadata?

From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 09:50:30 EDT

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    Hello,

    I agree with Dom, as well.

    One shouldn't blindly follow guidelines without first applying some
    common sense.

    I think this is precisely the case.

    hugs, rms

    On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 14:34, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 03:21, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
    > > Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote in
    > > news:1021400246.22398.88.camel@a227.appligent.com:
    > >
    > > >> No, it's actually not. 'Subject' == 'Keywords'!
    > > >> <URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ >:
    > > >
    > > > Actually, I was addressing the fact that I really *disliked*
    > > > their globbing of Subject+Keywords into the same tag.
    > >
    > > Well, it's only an (arguably) poor choice of name. Scientific
    > > papers and books include a list of 'subjects' covered, and Web
    > > pages include a list of 'keywords' or 'key phrases', but they're
    > > basically the same thing.
    >
    > These guys need to get a good grip on semantics and the proper usage of
    > several English words. They're using words that are related, but not
    > synonyms as though they were synonyms.
    >
    > Subject != Keywords. Even "Subjects Covered or Topics" != Keywords.
    > Maybe they are similar but it's still not (nearly) correct. "Subject" is
    > much closer to "Description" semantically, but Descriptions are much
    > longer than Subjects in practice (where description = a 1+ sentence
    > summary). So what they're saying is:
    >
    > Subject = Description != Subject
    >
    > which just doesn't make sense to me....
    >
    > Subject = Topic
    > Description = 1+ sentences about Subject (summary)
    > Keywords = Indexable words related to subject, description, author

    -- 
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    + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
    | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
    + So let's do it...?
    




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