Hi Paul, The main advantages of the Dublin Core metadata is that it represents the efforts of a group of information and library science experts to translate the cataloguing conventions previously associated with real world libraries into metadata equivalents. This translation includes details such as publisher, copyright, etc. For a complete list of the elements see our glossary entry: < http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/dublincore.php >
Adhering to the standards the DC working group recommend is one step toward interoperability--enabling catalogue records to be shared by different organisations. This aim of interoperability is not dissimilar to that of a web standards approach to content markup. AFAIK DC is of most use for custom-build search engines rather than for public services such as Google. In New Zealand, DC metadata is used for the New Zealand government porta and locator service: < http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/nzgls.php >. For a less dry example, the Image Library of the Australian National library also uses DC metadata: < http://www.pictureaustralia.org/ > >I have recently been reading about Dublin Core meta data. I would like >to know what the main advantages are of using it and how widely it is >interpreted by search engines. I am having a hard time finding out the >right information, could anyone point me in the correct direction or >maybe give some knowledge? Best regards, -- Andy Kirkwood | Creative Director Motive | web.design.integrity http://www.motive.co.nz ph: (04) 3 800 800 fx: (04) 970 9693 mob: 021 369 693 93 Rintoul St, Newtown PO Box 7150, Wellington South, New Zealand ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
