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Wednesday, December 01, 2004If Metadata Is the Answer, What Is the Question?ACM News Service: EPA Builds a Better Search. 2004-11-18: This article is actually about how employment of metadata standards can enhance search, location, and retrieval capability, not being entirely divorced from the preceding note about handles and DOIs. The thrust here is toward a standardized metadata scheme based on use of Uniform Resource Names (URNs). So there are then unique identifiers available for identifying material. It seems we are looking at a blend here. There's metadata and there are URNs, and then there's getting them working together. Use of standard classification schemes is probably helpful, but who knows how reliably that will work. I can just see Semantic Webbers salivating, though. The 2004-11-15 David Perera article in Federal Computer Week gives more and points out that there are draft recommendations on Categorization of Government Information out for public comment ending Dec. 5. There's no direct link to the material. Well, assigning unique identifiers to each piece of online government information should certainly let us know whether our UUID and URN schemes are big enough! No, I have no explanation why these notes are posted to December 1, which hasn't happened yet. My best guess is that when I set the new date for posting this old clipping, I managed to click the 31 instead of the 30 for November, and the Blogger system does the obvious thing and translates that back as December 1. Well, yes, if you have done geeky calendars like I have, that is the obvious thing, because it makes it easy to calculate tomorrow's calendar date even if today is the last day of a month (or year). But if you forget the ever-so-easy validation step then ... Oh, never mind. Comments: Post a Comment |
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