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Posted on:: October 24th, 2003
Bill Seitz is waxing provocative about metadata. (I’m happy to say that something I wrote instigated it.) Among other tidbits: “We need a semantic analyzer to tell us how much ‘new information’ is contained in the full content relative to that predicted by the metadata” That is — as I understand it — because the metadata abstract is more general than that which is being abstracted, the abstract may well hide what’s new and interesting. It’s the old genus-species approach where the genus tells you what it has in common and the species tells you what’s different.
Categories: Uncategorized dw
That’s an interesting way to put it.
I might say, “try to link to the primary sources.”
But.. then the semantic analyzer is creating metadata about the metadata, isn’t it?
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