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Metadata Without A Proposal

nothien at uber.space nothien at uber.space

Fri Feb 26 13:17:23 GMT 2021

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Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote:

Even though I personally prefer using the existing capabilities of the
link construct, which is the only structured artifact in text/gemini,
e.g.:
LICENSE
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ rel=license Licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
AUTHOR
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gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/solderpunk.vcf rel=author Authored by The One & Only Solderpunk
DATE
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tag:gemini.circumlunar.space,2020-05-26:/dns/gemini.circumlunar.space/tcp/1965/gemini/users/solderpunk/gemlog/the-mercury-protocol.gmi Created on May 26th 2020

The primary issue with this is that you're relying on English words('LICENSE', 'AUTHOR', 'DATE'), which isn't sustainable or accessible.The same holds for the rel= type tagging. In addition, it isextensible, which (as I've detailed) is not necessary and is against thespirit of Gemini.

Typing out these links is also going to be time-consuming, which isirritating when you're in the middle of writing a post. It's like we'readding boilerplate text; we want to make it as small and unnoticeable aspossible, which is contradictory to using links.

Finally, (and this is a personal opinion), I don't likenon-network-related schemes (except for mailto). I also think that alot of the information is repetitive.

However, I think that using a URL for licenses isn't a bad idea, becauseit removes dependency upon SPDX license identifiers, which areEnglish-oriented. At the same time, I don't know of any licenses whichare written in other languages (please correct me if I'm wrong), whichmeans that anybody licensing their work is using a license written inEnglish, and so they may as well use the SPDX license identifier.

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