On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 03:21, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> No, it's actually not. 'Subject' == 'Keywords'! > >> <URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ >: > > > > Actually, I was addressing the fact that I really *disliked* > > their globbing of Subject+Keywords into the same tag. > > Well, it's only an (arguably) poor choice of name. Scientific > papers and books include a list of 'subjects' covered, and Web > pages include a list of 'keywords' or 'key phrases', but they're > basically the same thing.
These guys need to get a good grip on semantics and the proper usage of several English words. They're using words that are related, but not synonyms as though they were synonyms. Subject != Keywords. Even "Subjects Covered or Topics" != Keywords. Maybe they are similar but it's still not (nearly) correct. "Subject" is much closer to "Description" semantically, but Descriptions are much longer than Subjects in practice (where description = a 1+ sentence summary). So what they're saying is: Subject = Description != Subject which just doesn't make sense to me.... Subject = Topic Description = 1+ sentences about Subject (summary) Keywords = Indexable words related to subject, description, author Dom
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