[CF-metadata] Towards recognizing and exploiting hierarchical groups (Charlie Zender - Steve Hankin - Richard Signell)

From: John Graybeal <john.graybeal>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:25:50 -0700

On Sep 19, 2013, at 13:58, Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu> wrote:

> Nothing in our proposal mandates a single way of representing hierarchies. Au contraire.

The concern by the hierarchy-wary is not that you'd mandate a single way, but that by providing an open mechanism, you would encourage a raft of competing ways, which in the aggregate are indecipherable and/or non-navigable without custom direction from the provider of that data. (In fact, a single way would have the advantage that it would be straightforward to understand and navigate, so you might actually be able to produce software packages that worked with it.)



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