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30 Sep 2004
Structure Autodiscovery
On ComponentBlog an interesting set of Use Cases is presented. The basic idea is that there are lots of content that have structure. Wouldn’t it be nice if weblog software would allow you to create such structure (reminds me of outliners), which you then publish. But you not only publish the content, but also the structure. This structure and its definition can then be used by other people to define their structured weblog entries.
I like the open idea about it: let structure proliferate. It is not allways necessary to define the fields of a structure beforehand. One could definition follow the practice. A kind of pragmatic Semantic Web. It is a little bit how I use pMachine at the moment. For each weblog entry I have 7 fields available (including the title). And I use these fields for different parts of a weblog entry. And I started to standardise a bit as well. Field 1 is an image, field 2 a weblink, field 3 the description and field 6 the tags. But I find it still limited, I would like more.