For info, there's a new, somewhat experimental, Dublin Core generator
available at
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dcdot.pl
This is a hybrid of two kinds of system already available - combining the
automatic tag generation of OCLC's Dublin Core Metadata System with the
form based editing of systems like those offered by the ADS and the Nordic
Metadata Project.
Given a URL, it retrieves the resource and generates some Dublin Core
metadata automatically - part of this process involves extracting existing
metadata from any META tags in the page. These values are then put into a
Web form, allowing subsequent modifications and additions to be made.
Help, in the form of a 'floating', context sensitive, help window is
available while making such modifications. (Please note that the help
system uses JavaScript and may therefore not work on all browsers).
As with the other tools, what you end up with is a set of HTML META tags
suitable for embedding in your Web page. These tags conform to the
proposed syntax for embedded Dublin Core agreed at DC4 AFAIK?
Those who are worried about such things might like to note that copies of
any metadata created using this tool will be stored here at UKOLN. At
this stage, this is primarily to enable monitoring of how well the system
is working. However, in the longer term it may be possible to use these
stored copies as the basis for metadata updates, either as people re-visit
the Web form to update their own metadata, or perhaps automatically by
looking for resources that have been updated since the metadata was
created.
Andy.
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