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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Aug 7, 2007 6:30AM

At 11:42 7/08/2007, you wrote:
>(...)
>Which leads me to my next question; does anybody on here use Dublin
>Core metadata? I did last time I had to add metadata, but looking
>around at other reputable sites, it doesn't seem like anyone else
>does. Is Dublin Core not worth adding? Does Dublin core improve SEO,
>or do you need to add seperate metadata for this?

Dublin Core metadata have been used by a few projects that I have
been involved in, e.g. IDCNet (<http://www.idcnet.info/>;) and
BenToWeb (<http://www.bentoweb.org/>;), but I am not aware of any use
of Dublin Core in the context of SEO or in the context of
accessibility (except for the work of the DCMI Accessibility
Community <http://dublincore.org/groups/access/>;).
The tools page at <http://dublincore.org/tools/>; lists mostly tools
for producing metadata and few tools for extracting metadata. There
is no mention of major search engines.
(There's also a Dublin Core Viewer extension for Firefox by Patrick Lauke:
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/528>.)

Best regards,

Christophe


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