Elizabeth,
You have not found the answers to these questions because we do not yet
have clear guidelines, though it is the goal of a working group to
formulate such guidelines.
I would recommend that you follow standard proceedures that you would
employ for other cataloging activities ... so, for names, I should think
Last name, first name, middle initial would be most desirable.
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?
Weibel, Stuarl L.
On Monday, December 01, 1997 3:30 AM, Elizabeth Cherhal
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> Dear Meta colleagues,
>
> Forgive me if these 2 matters have already been discussed and decided
upon
> many times. My archive of the list is really too long to read in
detail, and I
> havent found a clear explanation in the DC web pages.
> (Maybe I havent looked hard enough).
> We are trying to set up an implementation, based on todays html
> (be it 4 or 3.2, I dont think it is very important)
>
> Question #1: format of personal names
> In the DC web pages, we read things like DC.creator CONTENT="Tim
Berners-Lee".
> People in france tend to use for cataloging purposes "Berners-Lee,
Tim"
> (to avoid people telling me Tim's first name is probably "Timothy",
let us say
> "Weibel, Stuart")
>
> IS there a recommended format? (as there is for DC.date?)
> One we can use without having to refer to a scheme? Or must we use a
scheme?.
>
> Question #2: repeatable elements.
> In examples I take from here and there, I frequently see the
DC.creator
> element repeated, ie
> <META NAME="DC.creator" CONTENT="Tim Berners-Lee">
> <META NAME="DC.creator" CONTENT="Dan Conolly">
>
> I also see tother elements such as DC.subject with multiple keywords.
> (admittedly, not in the DC web pages)
>
> Is it correct to use multiple values inside CONTENT, or must
everything
> be repeated?
>
> Thanks for any answers.
>
> Cheers,
>
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