The Meta-Content Framework (previously “Format”), developed in 1996–7, was a structured data format for knowledge representation, typically used to describe the content of a website. This site is an archive of material about MCF, and HotSauce, Apple Computer’s graphical interface to MCF. The pages have been cleaned up, but a link to the original as captured in the Internet Archive is on each.
MCF was superseded by the Resource Description Framework (RDF). For information on how the transition from MCF to RDF happened, see Tim Bray’s history of RDF (2003).
Meta-Content Framework
- An MCF Tutorial, R.V. Guha and Tim Bray (at W3C), undated
- Meta Content Framework Using XML, R.V. Guha and Tim Bray (at W3C), 6 June 1997
- R.V. Guha’s MCF pages, which are on his site but not linked from anywhere; undated unless indicated
HotSauce
HotSauce, also known as “Project X”, was software from Apple Computer which allowed you to “fly” through MCF documents in a 3D space.
Apple pages and software
Articles about HotSauce
Websites about MCF/HotSauce in the Internet Archive