In de ”Ceci n’est pas un FAQ” over de nieuwe machine tags van Flickr (zie ook alhier), schrijft Aaron Straup Cope onder meer dit.
# Is the predicate *really* a predicate?
You are in a dark cave. In the corner is a fire and a man making bunny shadows on the wall with his hands. Whether or not it’s really a ‘predicate’ depends on how much time you spend on the semantic-web mailing list.
![]()
It’s close enough to being a predicate that it makes for a good short-hand.
# Wait, aren’t machine tags just RDF?
No, machine tags are not RDF; they could play RDF on television, though.
See also : weblog.scifihifi.com/2005/08/05/meta-tags-the-poor-mans-rdf
# Huh, what is RDF ?
RDF Describes Flickr. That’s really all you need to know about RDF.
Ik moet daar dus heel erg hard om lachen.



Ik vond dat ook bijzonder grappig, inderdaad.
“In the corner is a fire and a man making bunny shadows on the wall with his hands”
Dat is dus duidelijk verschillend van mijn versie van Plato’s “Politeia”.