[thelist] Dublin Core metadata standard

unfortunately not widely supported if anywhere
(fireball.de) but still a good try ...
it would be very useful, but I have been waiting
for it to be supported for some time now,
and I am afraid it won't happen..
but then with XML some might re-discover the old
concept.

Other thoughts?

.wolf

At 08:37 02.12.99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm reading through the findings over at WWWmetrics
>(http://wwwmetrics.com/), and while it is all very interesting,
>I can across this peculiar bit:
>
>"The simple HTML 'keywords' and 'description' metatags are
>only used on the homepages of 34% of sites. Only 0.3% of
>sites use the Dublin Core metadata standard."
>
>This is interesting to me because, frankly, I'd never heard of
>this Dublin Core metadata standard.  So, I hit a search engine
>("85% of users use search engines to find information"), and
>found the homepage of this standard, the Dublin Core Metadata
>Initiative (http://purl.oclc.org/dc/).
>
>I thought I might ask my fellow Evoltians if they'd dealt with this
>much, or at all.  Experiences, insights, and information are
>totally welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>Christopher Atkins