Re: Meta Tag - proposal (suggestions ???)

> From:          davidmsl@anti.tesi.dsi.unimi.it (Davide Musella)
> Subject:       Meta Tag - proposal (suggestions ???)
> To:            www-html@w3.org (Mailing list di html)
> Date:          Mon, 13 Nov 1995 12:29:33 +0100 (MET)
> Organization:  Dept. of Computer Science, Milan, Italy.

> Request for comments, suggestions, etc...

The META tag could benefit greatly from HTTP-EQUIV's for "revision" 
(as in 'revision number') and 'timestamp' (as in 'date/time the 
document was authored').

Librarians -- electronic or otherwise -- keep track of different 
versions of a document in many professions.  This is crucial in 
situations where one needs to track changes in documents over
time -- as frequently happens in legal, engineering, purchasing, and
technical support activities.  I would rate the importance of these
as "high" since one cannot do serious document management
without these concepts.

An interesting "nice" feature would be an HTTP-EQUIV for 'period' (as 
in 'the document covers the stated period').  This would be used to
organize information so that one can organize/retrieve by historical 
time period (eg: "give me all documents where 'title' contains 
'United Nations' and 'period' contains '1945').

 
>  [...]

>    This attribute binds the element to an HTTP response header. If the semantics
>    of the HTTP response header named by this attribute is known, then the 
>    contents can be processed based on a well defined syntactic mapping, whether 
>    or not the DTD includes anything about it. HTTP header names are not case 
>    sensitive. If absent, the NAME attribute should be used to identify this 
>    meta-information and it should not be used within an HTPP response header.
>    It is possible to use any text string, but if you want to define these
>    properties you have to use the following words:
> 
>    	keywords: to indicate the keywords of the document
> 	author:   to indicate the author of the document		
> 	expire:   to indicate the expire date of the document
> 	language: to indicate the language of the document
> 	abstract: to indicate the abstract of the document
>         organization: to indicate the organization of the author
> 	public (yes,no): to indicate if the document is available to averybody
> 			 or not

Received on Wednesday, 15 November 1995 21:09:41 UTC