Hi
On Fri 21-Sep-2001 at 08:51:08AM -0000, Brian Kelly wrote:
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> It's disappointing that DC-aware searching can be provided by this
> licensed Microsoft product, whereas the much more popular open source
> product ht://Dig does not allow this.
It strikes me that some advocacy work might be appropriate to try to
persuade search engines to support DC metadata.
Since ht://Dig "was developed at San Diego State University as a way to
search the various web servers on the campus" [1] I would have thought
they would want to see DC support -- has the issue been raised with
them?
There is also the issue of supporting RDF DC metadata, I guess that this
is more complicated for search engines, compared to extending support
for (X)HTML meta tags (for example Htdig already has support for some
HTML meta tags [2]).
It seems a bit like the chicken and egg situation at the moment, I'm
sure there would be wider support for DC metadata in search engines if
there was more content on the web with DC metadata but will it get
produced in large quantities before search engines support it...
I think this will change soon -- there is a lot of government and
educational organisations requiring standards compliance metadata these
days.
Chris
[1] http://htdig.org/main.shtml
[2] http://htdig.org/meta.html
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Chris Croome
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http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/
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