Quoting Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_OPENLIB.ORG>:
> Weinheimer Jim quotes Rick Erway
>
>> The reason is that a butterfly specimen has entirely different
>> metadata than a painting of a butterfly.
>
> A butterfly specimen has no metadata since the specimen is not
> data.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
> http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
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>
Well, maybe, maybe not. Is the specimen any more "real" than a
painting? Is the painting data? Is a book a "real thing" or data? Is
there anything you cannot create metadata for?
One of my beefs with some of the semantic web thinking is that it
encompasses a certain definition of "reality", a concept that has
occupied philosophers throughout the ages, and whose definition is not
be the same for everyone. Yet, under certain philosophies of "reality"
anyone who does not agree with you must be wrong.
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Received on Tue Jan 19 2010 - 08:22:12 EST