{"id":207,"date":"2003-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/08\/04\/140\/"},"modified":"2003-08-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-03T22:00:00","slug":"140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/08\/04\/140\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bray on Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2003\/07\/29\/SearchMeta\" title=\"ongoing On Search: Metadata\">Tim Bray on Metadata<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;If You Collect Metadata By Hand<\/p>\n<p>The most important lesson I&#8217;ve learned, is: Don&#8217;t try to collect too much. You might, just might, get people, when they&#8217;re interacting with your intranet, to label their information by project and title; but more than a couple of fields and people will just bypass the process.<\/p>\n<p>This is harder than it looks. When you decide in principle that metadata should be collected, it will develop that many stakeholders have short-lists of the fields they need to make this worthwhile. You can easily end up with a &#8222;short&#8220; list of a dozen or more fields that constitute the &#8222;absolute minimum&#8220; that people think you must have. And if you adopt it, you&#8217;re deadd, because except in special circumstances (e.g. the WSJ), people just will not take the time to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Automatic Metadata<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, there are some metadata items the computer will give you for free: a filename, created\/modified dates, who created it, what kind of file (HTML, Excel, PowerPoint), how big it is. These can be handy for search applications and since they&#8217;re free, you should collect them and make them available.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray on Metadata: &#8222;If You Collect Metadata By Hand The most important lesson I&#8217;ve learned, is: Don&#8217;t try to collect too much. You might, just might, get people, when they&#8217;re interacting with your intranet, to label their information by project and title; but more than a couple of fields and people will just bypass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}