>I had already read that doc. But I've not found any real proposal
>to standardize the description of an html file .
>they'll do (we hope). I'm not sure it was more important to define
>the robot metadata than the description metadata; the proposal about
>how to define the scheme used is not clear and it bring more confusion.
>The description metadata must be used by authors and they need
>something of not complex.
>many catalogation-schemes are for librarians not for normal author and they
>ask for a method (maybe derived from dublin?) easy to use, without a
>separation of the metainfo from the main file.
>who began this thread was looking for a simple scheme semantically
>understood by any robot, so to insert metadata in his files, and how many
>times have you met someone with the same problems? too many!
It would be a mistake to ignore the recommendations of librarians, but I
would be the first to agree that they must compromise on the complexity.
Simple examples are needed -- a complex system for supporting multiple
schemas doesn't rule out simple examples.
However, you seem to be asking for the One True Meta-Information Schema,
which just won't happen. The needs of the communities served by the Web
are much too diverse. This is one of the important things I learned from
listening to Stu and the other librarians -- for example, it's not really
even safe to assume that "title" means the same thing all the time.
Nick Arnett