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

Whitney Quesenbery wq2 at sufficiently.com
Mon Sep 16 12:37:49 EDT 2002


At 08:37 AM 9/16/2002 -0700, Avi Rappoport wrote:
>>Well, the obvious alternative is: Nothing. In fact, most successful
>>websites rely on the "nothing metadata system" for all their
>>documents. :)
>
>Worse than nothing: the file names are opaque, the web server sends wrong 
>dates, the HTML does not contain proper title and heading tags, MS 
>documents have duplicate properties filled in and so on.  The size is 
>usually correct though.

The goal of this exercise, of course, is to be "better than nothing."



Whitney Quesenbery
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