metadata with Dublin Core

[Elena O'Malley]

Here's a discussion of DC and search engines:

Is There a Future for Dublin Core and Metadata in a Practical World?  
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Digital Projects Librarian, Smithsonian Institution
Libraries and 
Suzanne C. Pilsk, Cataloguer, Smithsonian Institution Libraries  
http://www.sil.si.edu/staff/cil2001/index.htm 

They presented a session at Computers in Libraries 2001 and said search
engines 
typically don't look at metadata of any kind. They did find a few
specialized engines
that used DC:
MetaChem http://metachem.ch.adfa.edu.au/search-adv.html
AVEL http://avel.edu.au/AVEL-advance.html
Bridges http://www.bridges.state.mn.us/metadata.html

Personally, I tend to use (non-DC) title, publisher, keywords,
description, and language 
metatags.

Mary Beth Faccioli asked:
>Is it the case that search engines do not recognize
>Dublin Core metadata?  If this is true, are people
>using it anyway?  Are you also including non-DC
>elements, e.g.  ...

Elena O'Malley, Technology Librarian, Cardinal Cushing Library
Emmanuel College, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
omalleye at emmanuel.edu