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This is an interesting concept but as we have seen when the semantic web started out it only really served to enhance search engines instead or large tech compa

This is an interesting concept but as we have seen when the semantic web started out it only really served to enhance search engines instead or large tech companies would internalize the semantics of the data. Making large formats for interoperability never really caught on. Naming the standard Mac is also an issue (due to a product by Apple Inc.) but since its an acronym you should always format it as MAC

charcircuit 5y ago
That already stands for message authentication code and media access control.
- amelius 5y ago
  There's also a cosmetics company named MAC.
  - gjvc 5y ago
    The original is perhaps the Project on Mathematics and Computation by DARPA https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/project-mac https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/project-mac
mdasen 5y ago
> since its an acronym you should always format it as MAC That's the American convention, but it can vary elsewhere. If you look at BBC articles, you'll find that initialisms (like HIV) will be capitalized, but acronyms (like Aids) will only have an initial capital letter. Since "Mac" will be pronounced rather than saying "M-A-C", the style in a lot of the world would be to only capitalize the "M". Wikipedia's English language style guide specifically notes that it doesn't follow the convention of distinguishing between acronyms and initialisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Acronyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capi.... There's more information in the article about acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Case "Some publications choose to capitalize only the first letter of acronyms, reserving all-caps styling for initialisms, writing the pronounced acronyms "Nato" and "Aids" in mixed case, but the initialisms "USA" and "FBI" in all caps."

charcircuit 5y ago

That already stands for message authentication code and media access control.

amelius 5y ago
There's also a cosmetics company named MAC.
- gjvc 5y ago
  The original is perhaps the Project on Mathematics and Computation by DARPA https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/project-mac https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/project-mac

mdasen 5y ago

> since its an acronym you should always format it as MAC That's the American convention, but it can vary elsewhere. If you look at BBC articles, you'll find that initialisms (like HIV) will be capitalized, but acronyms (like Aids) will only have an initial capital letter. Since "Mac" will be pronounced rather than saying "M-A-C", the style in a lot of the world would be to only capitalize the "M". Wikipedia's English language style guide specifically notes that it doesn't follow the convention of distinguishing between acronyms and initialisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Acronyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capi.... There's more information in the article about acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Case "Some publications choose to capitalize only the first letter of acronyms, reserving all-caps styling for initialisms, writing the pronounced acronyms "Nato" and "Aids" in mixed case, but the initialisms "USA" and "FBI" in all caps."