At 7:03 PM -0000 6/29/97, Andrew Daviel wrote:
>Given that Dublin Core elements may be repeated, and supposing I wish to
>say that a document refers to Hull in the UK and not Hull, Quebec,
>and assuming we defined language = English so don't have to worry
>about Angleterre, etc., might one put (picking an example here of
>somewhere that has what amount to aliases if one doesn't inquire too
>closely)
>
> <meta name="dc.coverage.placename" content="Hull, Yorkshire,
> England, United Kingdom, Great Britain, UK">
[snip]
>or would people rather dive into a more complex structure like
> dc.coverage.placename.city
> dc.coverage.placename.county
> dc.coverage.placename.state
> dc.coverage.placename.postcode
>
>bearing in mind that such entities as provinces, states, counties, post
>codes etc. don't exist everywhere, let alone have the same names or
>formats, so that for searching by someone who doesn't know the conventions
>of the region involved things probably devolves to a free-text search
>anyway.
I'm hoping that there's some sort of standard set up already for
locations...Just picture more complicated areas (although I myself don't
know fully the purpose or extent of the DC.coverage.placename metadata)
such as a range of address numbers for a certain street in a certain
borough (sp?) of New York City, NY, USA!
I'm sure that if there *is* a standard set up for this, then one of you
folks knows it...:-)
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