> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:47 AM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration 
> n+1 (was Re: [xml-dev] InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
> 
> Beyond the issue of lying metadata, there's a much more 
> important distinction between metadata based search engines 
> like the semantic web and data based engines like Google. 
> Providing metadata requires extra effort which is roughly 
> proportional to the quality and amount of the metadata to be 
> provided. There is a noticeable cost for a site to add 
> metadata. 

I used to agree with this and loved to quote Cory Doctorow's Metacrap
article but the rise of RSS has changed my mind. There is now quite a
lot of metadata out there, created for free from tools that completely
integrated content creation with metadata creation. 

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