Content or Metadata?

[Robin Cover]

> the notion that there is some ordering on a document's author, title,
> and date-of-publication is surprising and unnatural. -T.

Depends...

He said "list of authors."  As in, multiple authors, where the
principal author is listed first (regardless of the spelling of
surname and Western-style collation sequence), the "next-most-
principal-author" is listed second in the order(-ed, -able)
author list, reflecting the contract...  blah blah.

Of course, such notions reflect perspective, which may or may
not be implicit/explicit in the style rules and underlying
assumptions of the house.  

Hence: "views, perspectives, projections, purposes."  No one
of them is fixed.  The poem escapes the intent of the author,
and becomes the property of the collective consciousness of the
community.

-rcc

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On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Tim Bray wrote:

> At 11:41 AM 12/2/99 PST, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> >What about the list of authors of a scholarly paper?  Isn't that metadata for which order
> >matters?
> 
> Yep, in fact that's the one use-case that kept coming up during the early 
> stage of RDF design.  Here's another one for free: content models.  But
> the notion that there is some ordering on a document's author, title, 
> and date-of-publication is surprising and unnatural. -T.
> 
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