Anyone using Dublin Core and meta fields?

[Eric Lease Morgan]

> KAREN SCHNEIDER <SCHNEIDER.KAREN at EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
>
> Is anyone out there using the Dublin Core and meta
> fields for embedding metadata in HTML? We're
> interested in this and I don't know if this is
> very much in the abstract still or if anyone is
> actually-factually doing this.

Yes and no, but mostly yes.

Many, if not most, of my personal home pages include META tags. While 
not using the Dublin Core specifically, my META tags almost always 
include author(s), title, and subject(s). The subjects I use come from 
a database I created. The subject scheme is more or less Eric Lease 
Morgan's Used Bookstore Model (ELMUBM).  :-)

All of my personal home pages are created using a database application 
(a FileMaker Pro and Frontier combination). Into each record of this 
database I feed titles, authors, subjects, body tags, headers, footers 
and body content. All of these things, except the content, are 
selected from pop-up menus.

When the database application creates the HTML of my home pages, it 
automagically, based on the META tags, creates subject-specific 
Harvest searches in the footers of my documents. This way I can link 
similar documents together with controlled vocabulary terms. It also 
allows me to create a set of home pages with a similar look and feel.

Give it a try. Go the following URL and notice the subject-specific 
hotlinks in the footer:

  http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/mr-d.html 
 
Take a look at the HTML source code. Notice how the HEAD of the 
document contains the META tags. Notice the end if the HTML. The 
*long* URLs at the bottom are Harvest queries. All of this content 
(the HEAD and the long URLs) are generated by my database program and 
Frontier.

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Eric Lease Morgan
NCSU Libraries
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/