Hello,

I agree with Dom, as well.

One shouldn't blindly follow guidelines without first applying some
common sense.

I think this is precisely the case.

hugs, rms

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 14:34, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> 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

-- 
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+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

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