We could always try leading by example =)
Start encoding Dublin Core in our own documents (custom properties in Word
documents, DC-specific SQL databases, HTML embedded and standalone DC sets,
and RDF-encoded XML).
I'll be starting this on my company's home site RSN. In fact, the metadata
will become the core around which our web site is tailored for the visitor.
Have a look at http://www.topic.com.au/ to see how our site is shaping up.
Yes, it's got its share of gratuitous javascript and animated GIFs, but then
our target audience is companies looking to implement an Intranet/Extranet,
and lots of people have come to expect bells and whistles, even in a working
system ;)
The main area of interest for my company (that's just short for "the company
that happens to be paying me to have fun in the IT industry") is the
DC.Subject field, and defining/implementing defined vocabularies.
Regards,
Alex Satrapa
Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
> Jim Weinheimer says:
>
> >One final question: how can we get overworked librarians to oversee the
> >management of any of this?
>
> Jim--
>
> I think this is the wrong question. The question really is: "How do we get
> Webmasters to understand that they NEED librarians to oversee the
> management of information resources on the Web?" ...
>
> Of course, the associated problem is that not that many librarians know
> about DC either. We've got our work cut out for us, clearly.
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