On 24 Feb 2009, at 11:21, Bob Schwartz wrote:
1. Dublin Core: I have only been able to find older studies (2000)
regarding
the possible improvement in search engine positioning through the
use of
these tags. The conclusion in these olders studies was "no significant
imporvement", however they did go on to say that in the future these
tags
will play a more important role. Has that future arrived or are
these tags
essentialy still "code bloat"?
The Dublib Core is only one of a few different metadata projects, such
as Web Ontology Language (OWL), the Warwick Framework, Resource
Description Framework (RDF) to name just a few. These metadata
projects try to describe or represent knowledge. The thirteen
elements of the Dublin Core include familiar descriptive data such as
author, title, and subject... but they are not enough. So the Warwick
Framework aimed to expend on the Dublin Core.
How essential are they? Well, I remember that the
webstandardsgroup.org used to recommend using the DC metadata -- but
last I checked they don't anymore.
2. geo.position: [snipped] Anyone have any experience or thoughts
regarding these tags?
I recently looked into this. I think as with the above, no one
standard has emerged just yet. Try and look into .gfx format and .kml
format files.
But not sure if this is what you meant.
Some links to check out:
http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/
http://www.gpsbabel.org/
Elle
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