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On Metadata

2nd August 2003

Tim Bray’s series On Search now has a table of contents page linking to each of the previous entries. The most recent article covers metadata, and includes some insightful commentary on the huge problem of gathering metadata from users in the first place.

Posted 2nd August 2003 at 9:06 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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