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Subject: human-readable?


Greetings,

Rather than nip-n-tuck Steve Pepper's reply to my post on metadata, I 
wanted to start a new thread on the subject of human-readable. (I will 
be replying to other issues in that thread.)

In a nutshell, I put metadata in the header of an HTML document and said 
that was "human-readable."

Steve Pepper on the other hand took the position:

> No. The metadata about the subject indicator (in particular, the
> publisher and the date) is not human-readable, in my opinion.
> Techie-readable maybe (using View Source), but not human-readable 

Is there a general sense of the group that "human-readable" = displayed 
to the user?

I don't have a problem with that being the case but I assumed 
"human-readable" would include anything that could be read by a human, 
in the same sense that XML is "human-readable" well, sorta. Taking 
"human-readable" at its most literal sense.

Comments?

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!




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