Comment by groby_b
17 days ago
I mean, you want to store a kitchen sink of data, too. You don't like the semantic web or semantic metadata, fine - what do you propose? A custom metadata format for each use case? That is semantic information.
If you don't do that, you get a kitchen sink. If you need to store 1930s death certificats, 10k filings, your doctor's signup forms, the ARR graph for your startup, and a genealogy chart all in the same format, kitchen sink it is.
If it were "just a wrapper for image data", what exactly would that wrapper add? Semantic information, or a kitchen sink to manage additional info.
You're asking to store complex data without preserving complexity - I don't think that'll work.
I understand your confusion.
PDF is terrible because it has grown over time from a format that was originally made for one purpose into a format that is used for too many purposes. That organic growth has caused PDFs to be very difficult to use for a wide variety of use cases.
That opinion doesn't imply almost anything else that you have claimed I support (and generally do not).