> How do get people to add the metadata and when If you ask me, this is at least as important (if not more so than) than figuring out how to store the stuff. GIGO and all that.
One example: Our print production system is based on a page metaphor - there are places to enter meta-data for each document, but except for the page number, none of it really matters to the print people - all they care about is what page or section the article goes into. So they are sometimes, shall we say, a bit less than rigorous about applying metadata (for example, changing the default "News" to "Column" when working on an opinion piece). Unfortunately, that means that when this stuff hits the online side, we have to recheck all the metadata they've applied (or not), because our system puts columns in a different directory on our Web site than news stories. By itself, not the world's greatest problem, but multiply that one bit of metadata by all the other ones you need to deal with ... Adam Gaffin Executive Editor, Network World Fusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (508) 490-6433 / http://www.nwfusion.com "I programmed my robotic dog to bite the guy who delivers the electronic mail." -- Kibo -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
