On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 Andy Powell wrote:
>
> These days, I'm not convinced by the embedding metadata in HTML approach
> anyway. Much better to link to a separate metadata record using the
>
> <link rel="meta" href="...">
>
> as is done on the http://purl.org/dc site.
>
> As a general rule...
>
> - store your content in a backend database if you can
> - store your metadata in a backend database (usually the same I guess?)
> - generate your HTML dynamically from the database and embed HTML <title>,
> <meta name ="keywords"> and <meta name="description"> tags based on
> metadata in database. Also embed <link rel="meta" href="..."> tag.
I agree that the HTML sources are probably not the smartest place to
store the reference versions of the metadata.
But probably also no harm and not much more work to also embed a set of
<meta name="DC.whatever" ...>
when you generate the HTML - for those clients who can use it from there.
You can still include the <link rel ...> as well for those clients who prefer
that form of delivery.
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