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Taken more broadly, this kind of metadata can be thought of
as a pedigree: Who thinks that this document is valuable? How
closely correlated have this person’s value judgments been with
mine in times gone by? This kind of implicit endorsement of in-
formation is a far better candidate for an information-retrieval
panacea than all the world’s schema combined.
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