Maybe someone can shed some light on the specifics of how best to assign
metadata to pdf documents. A solution I see referred to is where each pdf
should has a covering html document incorporating the dc metadata for the
pdf. But the practicalities of this are another thing. For example, where
there are links to many pdf documents (different subject matter)from one
html page (a publications page, for example), does it require the creation
of an additional html document for each pdf, and should a link then be made
to each of those html documents instead (replacing the current links
directly to the pdfs), from where one can then access the pdf? Or another
way...?
The creation of additional html documents for each pdf and then integrating
them into an existing site design suggests some site redesign and
consequentially additional work over and above mere metadata creation.
Storing metadata for pdfs in a database might be a better solution long
term, but it doesn't (in this instance in the particular environment I have
in mind) offer itself as an immediate solution.
Is the solution above the one that has to be adopted or is there a simpler
solution?
Eddie Byrne
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