On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:58:29 -0600, Tony Grimes <lists at tonygrimes.com> wrote: > A client just asked me if I could move their website over to the Dublin > Core > standard. Support was negligible when I first heard about DC a few years > ago, so I forgot about it. > > Do any of you know if support has increased at all? Since my client is > heavily involved with XML, I'd like to try supporting it, but I don't see > any point if there isn't any software out there to use the information. > > Right now I don't really see the benefit, except for maybe the marketing > hype we can put in the brochure. > > What do you guys think? Are any of you using DC? > > Tony The metadata on http://torbytes.co.uk can be mapped to the DC initiative (test xml items here: http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/xml) in order to meet the upcoming harvesting of metadata by NOF - digitise (under which scheme some 50 image digitisation projects have been underway for a year now) more on NOF - digitise: http://www.enrichuk.net/ and the harvesting of metadata project: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/help/papers/oai-pmh/ hth -- http://www.xebit.net/ Sent with M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: https://secure.bmtmicro.com/opera/buy-opera.html?AID=627923