applications software metadata

[Noel Winstanley]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 00:46, Malapert Jean-Christophe wrote:
> When you use a library in a software, you want to know if your library
> is reliable or not. You can see a service as a distant library. Is it
> possible to include a quality criterion in the resource ? Quality should
> be given by a validator.

I don't think it's feasible to assess the quality of each resource or 
application - quality is a very slippery, subjective term, as it depends on 
the context that the resource is being used in.

Poor old Robert Pirsig tied himself in knots over defining quality - we don't 
want to go down that route :)..

cheers
noel.




>
> Cheers,
> J-Christophe
>
> Robert Hanisch wrote:
> > Here is a V0.1 draft of applications software metadata.  I have some
> > more work to do (like putting in an example) but I thought I'd get
> > this out for comments.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bob

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