Re: Metacrap

Cory Doctorow wrote Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia, back in 2001. I propose to help replace some of the straw men with something slightly stronger.

• People Lie - tie it to their reputation to make it possible to punish them
• People are lazy - make it as easy as possible for them
• People are stupid - don't expect perfection
• Mission impossible: know thyself - put metadata creation in the hands of others
• Schemas aren't neutral - use a folksonomy, and multiple tags, we don't need heirarchy
• Metrics influence results - use them to encourage good behavior in the grand scheme
• There's more than one way to describe something - there's no need to stick with a single heirarchy
  

I'll put more air into this if someone wants to converse about it.

--Mike--