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thought this might be of interest to you after your reference to the New York times article you pointed me at yesterday - the idea of the document format going away and document becoming inline is intriguing to me... as some point through meta-data/tagging/geotagging information will no longer be contained in discrete documents but will rather be part of the collective memory - at least that is how it will appear to the researcher - obviously stuff still needs to be stored in databases etc - but being able to pull together on all relevant info about a topic on the fly in some sort of co-hesive format will be something neat! inline documents - streaming documents...
Ben
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via O'Reilly Radar by Peter Brantley on 10/14/07
By Peter Brantley
In ODF enters the Semantic Web, Rob Weir writes in his blog, An Antic Disposition, of the challenges of encoding the wide range of possible metadata describing a document in a semantically meaningful fashion within the constraints of a schema....
....The concept of a document as being a single storage of data that lives in a single place, entire, self-contained and complete is nearing an end. A document is a stream, a thread in space and time, connected to other documents, containing other documents, contained in other documents, in multiple layers of meaning and in multiple dimensions. What we call a traditional document is really just a snapshot in time and space, a projection into print-ready output form, of what documents will soon become......
