[Sigia-l] metadata redux

[Eric Scheid]

On 22/7/03 1:47 PM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:

> Nooo. The web actually realized these anomalies early on and went around
> them. Google.com with Page Rank. Amazon.com with user reviews. Ebay with
> seller ratings. Epinions.com. VersionTracker.com. IMDB.com.  Etc. Some have
> been commercially successful others not so. But they are all attempts at
> independent filtering, beyond vendor-supplied metadata.

Not that all vendor-supplied metadata should be dismissed ... a great deal,
if not virtually all, of the descriptive meta data to be found at iTunes is
vendor supplied. Why isn't that gamed? A vendor, with some crap tunes in an
obscure genre (folk polkas?) could state they are hip-hop tunes or some
other more popular genre.

Yet they don't.

Why?

e.