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Re: SIGIA-L: AGLS meta-data (was: Article: Anti-Thesaurus)

From: Eric Scheid (eric.scheid_at_ironclad.net.au)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 22:07:48 EST


From: Ziya Oz <ZiyaOz_at_earthlink.net> (12/1/01 2:02 AM)

>Are you unable to detect the difference between a private company trying to
>set a standard which everybody else can ignore and the government setting a
>standard which everybody must follow because the government has all the
>powers to force everyone to follow?

that's either a moot point or a straw man argument -- the agls meta data
regime only applies to gov.au sites, not elsewhere. It is a meta-data
scheme set up to facilitate searching and indexing of all the government
websites. They are not imposing it on non-govt. sites.

e.

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