Hello,
Using the META and LINK tags to embed metadata in HTML 2.0 seems like a
reasonable bridge strategy towards metadata for the masses. But for more
complex digital collections, this approach breaks down quickly. In addition
to shoehorning arbitrarily complex metadata into HTML's simple facilities, we
are going to need a way to encode metadata into a first-class object separate
from the document(s) described.
I've run across at least two DTD's produced to encode Dublin Core elements:
<URL:http://www.oclc.org:5047/oclc/research/publications/weibel/metadata/dublin_core_report.html>
<URL:http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/tech/metadata.syntax.html>
I'd guess that the latter supercedes the former. Is there any work underway
to take either of these DTD's as a point of departure towards formalization
of an internet media type for metadata so that we can promote metadata
to its rightful status as a first-class web object?
-marc
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