本文转载自W3CHINA.ORG讨论区(BBS.W3CHINA.ORG) 原文链接作者:Da以下为原文:Recommended readings on Meta-dataYesterday I wrote a reply to "急!请问元数据和本体的区别??" (see that thread's postings for details). As a follow-up here is an article I found very nicely written: http://www.netcrucible.com/semantic.html(Making a Semantic Web by Joshua Allen) Allen starts by discussing a simple case: making use of meta-data to describe webpages so that we can get more information about the contents of those webpages. This leads us, step by step, to the *need* of setting up a rather decentralized pool of such meta-data. I found this way of thinking about the semantic Web closest to my taste: it does not start by describing the "finished" layered cake of the Semantic Web, rather it starts by asking how to use existing tools to make a prototype one (at least in principle). Surely, Allen's article also contains plenty of things that are not that essential to the semantic web (and the article was written 4 years ago). But altogether a very refreshing presentation of the whole picture. Highly recommended, especially to those of us who are quite tired of the "layered pyramid" type of presenting the sem. web. -Ah Da<完>参与讨论本主题