Re: meta tags

[Dan Robinson Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

While there are standards for the Metatags and fields, Dublin Core
being one of them, there are no standards for the data that is
entered in the fields, other than being sure to enter the correct type
of data in the correct field.

For example, the Dublin Core standards have a field for subject
information, but the terms used are not restricted to a controlled
vocabulary.

If you want to learn more about the DC from the source, the
website is at <http://purl.org/dc/index.htm>. The page with the
Dublin Core Element Set contains the elements and descriptions.


Dan Robinson
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com


On 8 Jun 00, at 9:57, Hainer, Gene wrote:

> There are standards for metadata and metatags. The Dublin Core metadata
> standard is a set of fifteen elements used to describe a wide range of
> networked resources. The semantics of these fifteen elements have been
> established through consensus by an international, cross-disciplinary group
> of professionals from the library, museum, computer science, and text
> encoding communities.
>
> One source for details about this is the Colorado Digitization Project. This
> site also contains standards for digitizing information from primary sources
> (scanning issues, policy questions, etc).
>
> http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/standard.html
> ____________________________________________
> Eugene Hainer
> Colorado State Library


> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date:    Thu, 8 Jun 2000 05:27:06 -0700
> From:    Mary Ann Harlan <persei@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Subject: meta tags
>
> Had an interesting conversation on the train the other day about our
> profession and technology.  Somehow it led to cataloging and then meta
> tags in web sites.  The gentleman was asking me if there were any rules
> to developing the words and phrases used in meta tags similiar to LC or
> Sears subject headings.  I didn't think so but I thought I'd ask.  It is
> a business site and he wants optimum hits with search engines so I did
> suggest using subject headings along with Broader, Narrower, and Related
> terms and anything suggested as a see also.  Any insight?
>

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