I suggest two semicolons as delimiters; for example:
<META NAME="DC.subject" CONTENT="Contributions, Political --
1996::Foo::Bar">
Roy Tennant
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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:59:04 -0500
From: Weibel,Stu <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Jordan Reiter' <[log in to unmask]>, "Weibel,Stu" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: 'Elizabeth Cherhal' <[log in to unmask]>,
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Subject: RE: a couple of questions (probably newbie ones)
Commas strike me as dangerous... occur too much in phrases that might
properly be atomic?
In fact, I was sort of expecting someone to make the same assertion
about semicolons.
On Monday, December 01, 1997 2:56 PM, Jordan Reiter
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> tf
> Weibel,Stu felt an urge to reveal at 11:50 AM -0000 on 12/1/97:
> > 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="Keywords" CONTENT="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="Keywords" CONTENT="Baseball cards from 1996, Politicial
Jokes,
> Readers' Contributions">
>
>
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