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[SPEC] Backwards-compatible metadata in Gemini

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Fri Feb 26 10:44:38 GMT 2021

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmx.com> wrote a message of 27 lines which said:

The actual contents of the key-value pairs, the actual metadata itself,
would not be part of the spec, not even the keys.

May be not in "The Official Spec" but it certainly needs to besomewhere, because otherwise people would tag the same informationdifferently ("last-modified", "last-change", "updated"), thendestroying its utility. The OpenStreetMap example (you can invent newtags but you should use the official ones, when relevant) is certainlypertinent.

It would not be appropriate to try to impose a custom vocabulary

Nobody imposes anything, Gemini has no armed forces.