Has anyone got a feel for the speed with which major search engines are
likely to support the new DC syntax. In particular, when we are writing
software to create DC fields, how important will it be to continue writing
existing field formats as well for DESCRIPTION and SUBJECT for
compatibility with existing systems. For example having both:
<META NAME=DC.Subject CONTENT="piano, score, Bach">
<META NAME=keywords CONTENT="piano, score, Bach">
and both:
<META NAME=DC.Description CONTENT="A poem by Fred Smith about the moon in
June">
<META NAME=Description CONTENT="A poem by Fred Smith about the moon in
June">
In short my question is: Is this worth the effort, or by the time we got a
decent amount of data deployed (3-4 months??) would any decent search
engine recognise the DC. syntax?
Please peer into your crystal balls and offer an opinion soon.
Cheers
Jack
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Jack Gilding ph: (03)9628-4652
Project Manager, VET EdNA Project fax: (03)9628-2472
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