Re: meta information

"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 18:23:11 +0200
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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Subject: Re: meta information 
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In message <199406021544.IAA04485@nova.unix.portal.com>, Nick Arnett/Multimedia
 Computing Corp. writes:
>
>Somewhere in the discussion that you copied, someone mentioned the idea
>that the information in META elements might map to a relational model.  I
>hope it isn't that limited, is broad enough to include semantic models.
>The Web today more closely follows a semantic model anyway -- documents
>tend to be linked by meaning.  Information in the META elements should be
>usable for applying relational and other potential models to Web
>navigation.

Yes: we need to be able to express more machine-readable semantic
information in documents, but NO, I don't think META is the
way to do it.

A semantic network represented by typed links is the mechanism
I see emerging. Using HyTime markup, we might write:

	<ilink linkends="billgates microsoft" anchroles="officer corporation">
	<urlloc id=billgates>public-figure:/Gates/William</urlloc>
	<urlloc id=microsoft>corporation:/USA/Microsoft</urlloc>

	<a linkend=billgates>Bill Gates</a>, chairman
	of <a linkend=microsoft>Microsoft</a> announced today...

Dan