Hi All,
This new recommendation for DC in (X)HTML looks good. And it has lots of examples which is good.
It does feel a bit tedious duplicating every example in HTML and XHTML. Shouldn't we be encouraging people to use XHTML? So just places where it differs could be indicated (just mention once the '/>' needed in XHTML but not HTML).
However I wonder if it should say something about changes from the current recommendation, and backwards compatibility (or not). There is a lot of DC out there on Web page headers. Do they suddenly become invalid? I suspect there will be a hard education task to encourage people to change current practices and internal / local recommendations.
For example, I have local recommendations such as:
<meta name="DC.subject" scheme="DCTERMS.LCSH" content="economics" />
<meta name="DC.subject" content="science; arts; social science" />
<meta name="DC.subject" scheme="DCTERMS.LCSH" content="economics; social science; engineering" />
<meta name="DC.subject" scheme="DCTERMS.DDC" content="050; 100; 150" />
<meta name="DCTERMS.created" scheme="DCTERMS.W3CDTF" content="2002-05-01" />
Actually I'm not sure if this last one is still valid. The document uses XSD.date but doesn't say anything about why it uses that rather than DCTERMS.W3CDTF.
Also a minor point: Is there a reason why section 3 and 4 headings have 'Meta Data' rather than 'Metadata'?
Best wishes,
Ann
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