SMBmeta
Dan Bricklin,
Interland,
May 29, 2003
Now I have touted this plan several times in different offices: get businesses to adopt a metadata format describing themselves. Have each business maintain such a file just as it maintains a web site. Generate up to date business information and statistics merely by harvesting these files. The advantage to business is that they need update their information only once, and it is then available to any government agency or potential customer: no more forms to fill. The advantage on the other side is dynamic and current information. For some reason my suggestion never really resonated with listeners, who continue to do it the old data-input way. Well. Some people get it. The author of this document, for example, which describes small business metadata and provides tools to help business create their own files.
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