Ok, here's a naive question. If I shove Dublin Core elements into my HTML docs, eg:
<meta name="dc:title" content="Thingy" />
<meta name="dc:description" content="Wossname" />
<meta name="dc:subject" content="oer" />
<meta name="dc:subject" content="ukoer" />
etc, what use is this? That is, what services are going to pick this up? You can harvest RSS and OAI-PMH services with special software (eg RSSOwl, PKP harvester), but with what, and how, would you harvest DC in meta tags? Is there a crawler which could be sent out into the Whole Wide World to find pages with 'oer' in the meta tags?
As a matter of purist form I'm putting DC elements into a site I'm developing seeing as its subject is OER, but it would be nice to know that the effort has some practical effect.
Cheers
Fred
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