{"id":33,"date":"2005-09-15T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dilettantes.code4lib.org\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-01-18T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T04:58:08","slug":"metasearch-metadata-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/2005\/09\/metasearch-metadata-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Metasearch Metadata Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/z3950\/agency\/zing\/srw\/\">SRW\/U<\/a> is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yngwie.org\/\">Yngwie J. Malmsteen<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/opensearch.a9.com\/\">OpenSearch<\/a> is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithricharhttp:\/\/www.blogger.com\/img\/gl.link.gif`ds.com\/\">Keith Richards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yngwie Malmsteen is technically superior, however aesthetically unlistenable (unimplementable, in the case of SRW\/U).<\/p>\n<p>Keith Richards is sloppy, unsophisticated and writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstones.com\/home.php\">timeless melodies that resonate with the masses<\/a> (OpenSearch is sloppy, unsophisticated &#8212; while time will tell if OpenSearch becomes &#8220;timeless&#8221; [seems doubtful, honestly], but there are certainly a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/opensearch.a9.com\/-\/search\/moreColumns.jsp\">OpenSearch targets<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miketaylor.org.uk\/\">Mike Taylor<\/a> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/listserv.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/wa?A2=ind0509&#038;L=zng&#038;T=0&#038;F=&#038;S=&#038;P=573\">a very insightful reaction<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/curtis.med.yale.edu\/dchud\/log\/project\/linkstack\/more-unalog-search-with-opensearch-and-content-indexing?showcomments=yes\">Dan&#8217;s worklog posting<\/a> (and incredibly objective, given his investment and relationship to SRW\/U).  And he&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m right.  Unless SRW\/U can capture some of the mojo that OpenSearch has, it might as well be Yngwie J. Malmsteen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRW\/U is to Yngwie J. Malmsteen as OpenSearch is to Keith Richards. Yngwie Malmsteen is technically superior, however aesthetically unlistenable (unimplementable, in the case of SRW\/U). Keith Richards is sloppy, unsophisticated and writes timeless melodies that resonate with the masses (OpenSearch is sloppy, unsophisticated &#8212; while time will tell if OpenSearch becomes &#8220;timeless&#8221; [seems doubtful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-philosophizing","category-sru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}