I encourage ya'll to visit the Dublin Core site and see what the
"standards" type folks are trying to do RE consistent use of metatags to
facilitate actually being able to *find* info with them.
' The Dublin Core metadata is designed to facilitate discovery of
electronic resources in a manner similar to a library card catalog. '
http://purl.org/DC/
Here's the W3C effort on metadata
http://www.w3.org/Metadata/
Metadata and Resource Description
Metadata is machine understandable information for the web. The W3C
Metadata Activity answers the combined needs of the PICS, DSig, and WebDAV
efforts for a
common syntax for expressing assertions about information on the web.
meta-data proposal, released january 99
http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-rdf-syntax/
One of the reasons I'm suggesting you at least take a LOOK at this stuff,
is that it seems to replace the meta tag in the header.
For example, this sniippet is for illustration only, but see the difference?
Here is a description of a Web site home page using Dublin Core properties:
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://w3.org/TR/1999/PR-rdf-syntax-19990105#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core#">
<rdf:Description about="http://www.dlib.org">
<dc:Title>D-Lib Program - Research in Digital Libraries</dc:Title>
<dc:Description>The D-Lib program supports the community of people
with research interests in digital libraries and electronic
publishing.</dc:Description>
<dc:Publisher>Corporation For National Research
Initiatives</dc:Publisher>
<dc:Date>1995-01-07</dc:Date>
<dc:Subject>
<rdf:Bag>
<rdf:li>Research; statistical methods</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Education, research, related topics</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Library use Studies</rdf:li>
</rdf:Bag>
</dc:Subject>
<dc:Type>World Wide Web Home Page</dc:Type>
<dc:Format>text/html</dc:Format>
<dc:Language>en</dc:Language>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
At 5:52 AM -0500 3/6/99, Brent Eades wrote:
>On 5 Mar 99, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>
>> George so kindly suggested:
>> >A dictionary of Meta Tags
>> ><http://www.vancouver-webpages.com/META/>
>>
>> I can't seem to access this server. Can anyone else? Maybe it's just a
>> local problem...
>
>I have intermittent problems reaching this server also. Dunno why
>exactly, excessive traffic occasionally I suppose.
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