Folks:
I'm a little out of my depth here--do I have a volunteer to take this one
on? I did send another of their folks an answer to a question that seemed
much simpler, and I'm forwarding along that exchange as well (in a separate
message).
Diane
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>From: Dinesh Ramachandran <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'Diane I. Hillmann '" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Implementing Dublincore metadata standards for rich media objects
> in HTML files
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:54:45 +0530
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>Hi Diane,
>
> This is with reference to the the parsing of metadata of rich
> media objects embedded in HTML pages. As you know, objects can be
> embedded in <OBJECT> tags, <APPLET> tags or <IMG> tags. Normally,
> metadata is defined in the <META> tags of <HEAD> section. But when you
> have multiple objects embedded in an HTML page, how is it possible to
> define a unique set of metadata for each object? You can't even put to
> use the repeatable option of DC elements in <META> tags, since it is just
> impossible to correspond the <META> information with a particular object
> in the HTML page.
>
> So, I think that the only solution possible is to bundle the
> metadata of the object in the <OBJECT> tag itself. That way, a unique set
> of metadata could be associated with a particular object. How it is to be
> technically implemented is open for discussion.
>
> Or, do you suppose that you can have only one embedded object per
> HTML page?
>
> Please clarify on these points. Implementing the Dublincore
> metadata standards for media objects is raising a lot of issues. Your
> advice and help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>
>Dinesh
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Diane I. Hillmann
Metadata Specialist
National Science Digital Library Project at Cornell
Department of Computer Science Voice: 607/255-5691
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