I would like to endorse the strategy of testing these tools among ourselves
for a time before going too public. The workshop just concluded had, as
one of its prominent
conclusions,. a strong recommendation to alter the labels of the fields
somewhat. to make them less text-centric. I agree with this sentiment
personally and expect that there will be some concrete recommendations for
discussion in the very near future.
So, as much as I'd like to see deployment pushed rapidly and agressively, I
think
a short regrouping and workover of the set may be in order, with, say, a
goal of
January as a roll out?
stu
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From: Andy Powell
To: Paul Miller
Cc: Jon Knight; meta2
Subject: Re: Inject Dublin Core into HTML docs.
Date: Thursday, September 26, 1996 7:02PM
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Paul Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Jon Knight wrote:
>
> > As I see things, one of the problems we've got with Dublin Core is
> > getting a large base of DC metadata "out there". We've already decided
> > that one of the biggest bits of "out there" at the moment is HTML
> > documents. Therefore I've written a _very_ simple minded Perl script
> > that lets you "inject" some DC metadata into an existing HTML document.
>
> Yup... I had hoped to get this working, and then hit various lists with
> the URL, plus a link to some papers (those in Ariadne and D-Lib?) to
> raise awareness...
Sigh... Paul, I'm not sure that it's sensible to push these tools too far
outside the confines of this list for the time being - seems to me that
you're not doing anyone any favours by encouraging them to create inline
DC until you can be reasonably sure that the syntax for the META tags is
stable. And we don't appear to have got to that point yet :-(.
I've written a similar tool here but we've decided to back off using it
for a while.
Just done a quick comparison of the META tags generated by the scripts and
the output is pretty similar.
Jon, your script generates
<META NAME="DC.subject" CONTENT="(scheme=keywords) ... ">
Should be type= rather that scheme= perhaps?
Andy.
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