[Sigia-l] Dublin Core and meta-tag length

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, ::kevination:: wrote:

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> Whitney Quesenbery wrote:
> > I have two questions from a client:
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> > 1. How prevalent is the Dublin Core in use?
> > The client is already using DC for their intranet, but is looking for
> > figures on how widespread it is for external corporate sites.
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> Whitney, I've been developing large(500+ documents)public corporate
> sites for many years and have yet to see a single site that follows
> Dublin Core. I do not even remember it ever coming up in meetings. Meta
> Tags for public corporate sites are really centered around search engine
> ranking only. Most only have keyword and description tags, if at all.

If all you need is to be searchable by the public search engines, then DC
is not going to be all that useful to you.  Where it comes into its own is
where you are using search engines which can search within particular
metadata elements, and particularly where you are sharing your metadata
with other organizations for this purpose.

The main users of Dublin Core seem to be education resource
repositories and directories, libraries, Government Departments and a
few museums.

Quite a few governmnets have settled on Dublin Core as a key standard for
locating information across government departments.

Andrew McNaughton