- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:07:55 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "Chabot, Elliot" <Elliot.Chabot@mail.house.gov>, public-html-comments@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009, Chabot, Elliot wrote: >> The XHTML/XHTML implementation of the Dublin Core metadata standard >> makes use of the "scheme" attribute. For instance, >> >> <link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.1/" /> >> <link rel="schema.DCTERMS" href="http://purl.org/DC/TERMS/" /> >> >> <meta name="DC.subject.classification" scheme="DCTERMS.LCSH" content="United States. Congress" /> >> <meta name="DC.subject.classification" scheme="DCTERMS.LCC" content="JK1021" /> >> <meta name="DC.subject.classification" scheme="DCTERMS.DDC" content="328" /> >> >> identifies a document as falling under the Library of Congress Subject >> Heading "United States. Congress", with a Library of Congress >> Classification Number of "JK1021", and a Dewey Decimal Classification >> Number of "328". >> >> At the U.S. House of Representatives, we have been using Dublin Core >> since 2005 as part of our efforts to promote web standards compliance. > > Can you elaborate on this? What software do you use to actually consume > this data? Is this internal data or is it published on the Web? I can't speak for Elliot, but the Web repository connector inside SAP Netweaver's Knowledge Management has supported RFC2731-style encoded metadata (as shown above) for many years now. BR, Julian
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