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authorship tag

Thomas Karpiniec tkarpiniec at icloud.com

Thu Jun 4 08:24:38 BST 2020

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On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 05:31:27AM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:

The tag URI is defined as follow:

"tag:" authorityName "," YYYY-MM-DD-date ":" specific [ "#" fragment ]

text/gemini document could sport one, to convey authorship.

One could turn a gemini url into a tag, e.g.:

I'm not clear what that would gain me as either an author or as areader?

This suggestion, along with anything else involving packing"interesting" data inside URIs is very reminiscent of the semanticweb. The idea of the semantic web is that documents are optimised forreading by _computers_, in ways that web documents currently are not.

Everything about the existing specification of text/gemini, along withthe discussions on this list worrying about how documents look forthose who simply "cat" the contents to screen, suggests a desire for adocument format that is optimised for _human_ consumption even in itsbare form. When meaningful information becomes sandwiched betweencolons and URL-encoded, or worse base64-encoded, then that's at oddswith human readability. For all practical purposes computer assistanceis required to extract and interpret the information content, contentthat could otherwise have been written in English.

Taken together your ideas seem like an interesting project, one thatcould easily operate over the gemini transfer protocol, but such URIsseem at odds with the dominant usage of text/gemini specifically.

Cheers,

Tom