> Setting aside that BFranz's flame on the robots list doesn't sound very
> sound, I just want to note that even if the scheme only found acceptance in
> the academic community that would not be so bad. Library catalogs haven't
> found acceptance outside libraries, either. --pg
It would be a total failure to meet the original objective:
to enable library card catalog style searching of the World Wide Web.
It would be like saying
well, if our library catalog only covers books written by people in
the adacemic community, that's all we're really interested in anyway.
As it happens, this group has taken too long to come up with a simple,
minimum-feature syntax, and other people have already implemented other
things. Microsoft's SiteMap is an example.
The good news is that a lot of people know of the Dublin Core, and many of
these people are using it as a starting point for development.
It may be that the most useful things this group can do now are
* write examples
* write a two-page and a ten-page guide for non-experts (to some extent this
is the User Guide) about the meaning of the fields (not the syntax)
Stu, could OCLC provide a Scheme Registry? Would that be useful?
Then unregistered Schemes could start with an X-, as usual in Internet
field names...
Lee
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