- From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:14:21 -0700 (PDT)
- To: meta2 <meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Misha Wolf wrote:
> The next version of HTML is likely to support the SCHEME and LANG qualifiers
> proposed at DC-4 in Canberra. See <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-htmllink>.
>
re. http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-htmllink#profile
Good idea. People are starting to use more metadata and authoring tools
are generating it. I suspect there's a tendency to
a) fill in authoring tool forms without considering the meaning of
the fields
b) Invent new names without documenting them
c) Just plain misunderstand the use of <META NAME=
See e.g. http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/,
http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/bycount.shtml
A question:
given <HEAD PROFILE="http://ww ...>
<META NAME="author"
what if an author wishes to use more than one profile (both DC
and a private or specialist scheme, for instance), and
the same item appears in both profiles ? Indeed, how do you tell which
profile an item belongs to (short of reading both profiles and looking
for it) ?
Possibilities:
<PROFILE HREF="http://etc.org/myprofile.html">
<META NAME="author" ...
</PROFILE>
<PROFILE HREF="http://http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core">
<META NAME="creator" ...
</PROFILE>
<META PROFILE HREF="http://..." NAME="author" ...
Andrew Daviel
TRIUMF and Vancouver Webpages
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