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[Stu Weibel]

If this discussion is about  standards, try dropping the -ishes from
"vaguely MARCish, a bit GILSish and maybe Z39.50ish.  You might even
want to look at the exceedingly MARCish Internet Resources Cataloging
Project.

If MARC cataloging doesn't fit your model, why not check out the
evolving efforts having to do with the Dublin Core, or RFC 1807, or
even IAFA templates?   There is now a clear syntax for inclusion of
meta tags in HTML itself, which means you can embed meta information in
the objects themselves, or create HTML versions of the records.

This is not a replacement for a system, but it is a reasonable way to
start that assures parseable extraction of metadata for the future when
the supporting infrastructure is better developed.

No, you don't get guarantees.  This is a frontier.  Meanwhile, there
are very reasonable ways to start your log cabin.  Check out my home
page for pointers to some of them.  

stu

Stuart Weibel
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