No, don't use a comma; it's often used in
Library of Congress Subject Headings and
I would suspect in other subject-headings
schemes. Semi-colon is ok as far as I know;
it's what Universityof California/Riverside's
Library used for its InfoMine inputting of
keywords, and seems to work well.
Mary Larsgaard
UC Santa Barbara
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> As for Key words, I am very much in the camp of aggregating key words in
> a single content field, delimited as appropriate with semicolons. I'm
> not sure we've agreed upon the semicolons as the best delimiter, and in
> fact this might be a good time
> to address this issue. Keywords are indexing access points, and phrases
> are certainly within scope... is there an accepted phrase delimiter we
> can borrow from the indexing and abstracting world to propose as the
> standard?
Commas seem widely used. I see no real reason why they can't be used here.
Again, I think that standardizing delimiters should mean that search
engines, if they are indexing a conforming document, should store these
items as unified wholes. In other words, If I have something like:
<META NAME=3D"Keywords" CONTENT=3D"1996 Political Contributions,blah,blah">
That a search for "1996 Political Contributions" would pick up *my* page
before someone with this kind of usage:
<META NAME=3D"Keywords" CONTENT=3D"Baseball cards from 1996, Politicial Joke=
s,
Readers' Contributions">
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