"Creating metadata for text has gone from tedious to insignificant." If this isn't obvious, it should be. From where I sit, the text is the metadata - it describes itself. So where is metadata useful - photographs? Video? Well it would be, if people filled it out well. What would be better, proposes the author, would be if there were a moratorium on metadata. Instead, we should embark on a project to differentiate multimedia content without metadata - in effect, letting the pciture be its own metadata just as the text is. Good article, via Scott Leslie. PDF.
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