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                1. Everyone has to have their own metadata standard woooooo
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                I once sat in a conference session where I argued for the necessity of standardizing metadata across academic disciplines...
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              Most we could agree on was we theoretically could really use a metadata standard to inform parsers which metadata standard was being used.
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            The metadata of metadata, a specification that never came to be, but I still think we could use it.
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          Working with academics, I've built parsers for at least 4 or 5 different metadata standards which essentially hold the same data.
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        How many ways can you describe "this is a journal title"? It turns out a lot of ways.
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      I still have freaking nightmares about TEI, which is, I'm sorry, indefensible. folgerdigitaltexts.org/download/teisimple/Ham.xml
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    As far as I can tell, though there is some auto-complete assistance, some poor grad student wrote all that XML by hand?


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