Re: [syndication] Digest Number 147

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

In academic circles they (hopefully) use the scientific method. (At least
they did when I was in academia, in the last millenium.)

How could we conduct a test to find out if people who use RSS have a clue
what "Dublin Core" is?

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Downes" <stephen.downes@ualberta.ca>
To: <syndication@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Digest Number 147


> > 1. Dublin Core is a slippery slope because most RSS developers don't
have a
> > clue what it is and I don't think they have to.
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> Dublin Core is a widely known and widely used protocol, especially in
academic,
> library and information management circles. It would be astonishing were
it true
> if RSS developers "didn't have a clue" about it.
>
> Stephen Downes - CTO - NewsTrolls - http://www.newstrolls.com -
> downes@newstrolls.com
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