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nothien at uber.space nothien at uber.space
Wed Feb 24 14:08:32 GMT 2021
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> wrote:
Using structured metadata allows you to search into documents those
written, by John Guy (or Alice Gal). grep or other tools for
unstructured searches don't help here since they cannot tell the
difference between a page written by Alice Gal and a page discussing
the life of Alice Gal.
Other examples of useful metadata: date of publication so you can
find, for instance, the most recent, or exclude those that are too old
/ too young, licence, so you can find "only documents under a free
licence", etc.
I'm sorry, I wasn't considering the case of gemtext as a storage format,only of it as a communication format.
Let me make my argument more specific: author and date and relatedmetadata isn't useful to a receiving /client/ because there's nothing itcan do with it. These can certainly be helpful for stored gemtext files(although there are other places metadata can be stored, e.g. in adatabase), as they provide this information to the /server/ to which itis useful (particularly for searching and categorizing).
Otherwise, what will happen? Since the Internet is permissionless,
people will do it anyway. And probably in a worse way. If "we" (we
being "the Wise Gemini People" or "Gemini Experts" or something like
that) reject everything (or even if we are PERCEIVED as rejecting
everything), people will do it elsewhere and may be do it badly. We
cannot (and don't want to) prevent people from doing Gemini stuff
outside of the "Gemini Official Channels" but we can at least act in
good faith, and propose them a serious and documented way to have
proposals examined (and may be rejected, but not dismissed without a
serious examination).
I ... didn't think about this.