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

[Adrian Howard]

On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 03:02  pm, Whitney Quesenbery wrote:

> I have two questions from a client:
>
> 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.
> [snip]

I've not come across it in corporate sites myself (doesn't mean it's not 
there however - I don't do a lot of corporate work at the scale where DC 
would be useful).

I've seen government and educational sites use it (e.g. in the UK the 
Curriculum Online <http://metadata.ngfl.gov.uk/> & NC Online 
<http://www.nc.uk.net/metadata/> use Dublin Core.)

> 2. Is there a maximum number or total length for meta-tags before the 
> search engines start ignoring the tags?

Depends on the search engine I guess. I've only used DC in the context of 
specialised portals, where the answer was "there are no limits".

Adrian
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