SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: Article: Anti-Thesaurus
Re: SIGIA-L: Article: Anti-Thesaurus
From: Michael Fry (mfry_at_drexel.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 10:17:03 EST
Speaking of relevancy, would those of you now discussing metadata
standards consider changing your subject line (so that the tiny few of
us still actually referring to the "anti-thesaurus" article can continue
to do so w/o being mistaken for something else)?
Thanks.
mf
Chris Chandler wrote:
>
> Ziya Oz wrote:
>
> > Chris Chandler wrote:
> > > Did you read the article?
>
> > No, I trusted Melissa was competent enough to summarize it
> for us. My
> > comments were based on her summary.
>
> {{{ raspberry }}}
> {{{ raspberry }}}
> {{{ raspberry }}}
>
> Perhaps in the future you'll think about stopping at "no."
>
> I suppose a "my bad" is out of the question.
>
> > > On the other hand, government can establish very
> significant
> > > metadata standards by fiat, see:
> >
> > Problem four: At least in the U.S., we try not to rely on
> the government
> > setting information 'standards.'
>
> I have no idea what what you mean. The standard I pointed
> to, like the one it replaced, will be relied on by many many
> people and businesses. There is no trying involved.
>
> > (Indeed we have mini industries just for
> > re-slicing and re-dicing government data, often revealing
> the inadequacies
> > of the way data was categorized in the first place.) Hence
> my anticipatory
> > remarks about the Taliban, who *can* set strict standards
> :-)
>
> It's true that government standards suffer from many of the
> same problems as other types of standards -- but, the
> government, any government has the power to set "strict"
> standards by fiat, without being "taliban." Just because
> they're not perfect and you don't like them doesn't make
> them any less real or important.
>
> -cc
--
Michael Fry
Graduate Student
College of Information Science & Technology
Drexel University
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