Cory Doctorow doctorow@craphound.com Version 1.3: 26 August 2001 BACK TO TOP 0. ToC 0.1 Version History 1. Introduction 2. The problems 2.1 People lie 2.2 People are lazy 2.3 People are stupid 2.4 Mission: Impossible -- know thyself 2.5 Schemas aren't neutral 2.6 Metrics influence results 2.7 There's more than one way to describe something 3. Reliable metadata BACK TO TOP Version 1.3, August 26 2001. Fixed typos. First published version. Version 1.2, May 23 2001. Tweaked intro (Thanks, Fred). Version 1.1, May 18 2001. Changed section orders for better organization. (Thanks, Raffi). Clarified "metrics" in 2.6 (Thanks, Andy). Version 1.0, May 15 2001. First draft BACK TO TOP Metadata is "data about data" -- information like keywords, page-length, title, word-count, abstract, location, SKU, ISBN, and so on. Explicit, human-genera...