- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:53:13 -0400
- To: David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com>
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, "Rushforth, Peter" <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>, "public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org" <public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org>
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 08:56 -0700, David Lee wrote: > As a Double-Straw man, consider Dublin Core. > DC is a set of predefined attributes intended to supply meaning (meta > data) to a horizontal set of documents. That of any published work. > I don't fully know its history but from what I do know it was > published because the concept was in actuality being implemented by > many different groups and they wanted to come together at a publisher > and all mean the same thing. Dublin Core (named after a meeting in Dublin, Ohio) was an initiative started by Joseph Hardin (NCSA), Yuri Rubinsky (SoftQuad) and Stu Weibel (OCLC) (I was there too but I don't know that I really contributed much) with the goal of facilitating something like a library's card catalogue for the Web. It didn't work out, and you still can't reliably find out who wrote a given Web page, or search the Web for writing by a given author. But Dublin Core for sure does have uses. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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