July 7, 2005

Never Hire a Metadata Architect

Guy Kawasaki (author of Rules For Revolutionaries) once quipped Never buy a computer from a company where the president can’t do the demo. Hmmmm. Never hire a Metadata Architecture that:

• doesnt understand the foundations of information architecture or design
• doesnt know the base PageRank formula used by Google
• doesnt know who Melvil Dewey is
• doesnt know the difference between registry and repository
thinks that the Dublin Core is from Ireland
• thinks Topics Maps are silly
• thinks that Metadata is data about data
• thinks that Meta-Tags are dead
• fear ontologies, semantics, semantic web, and taxonomies

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Posted by Todd at July 7, 2005 8:07 PM