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From: Peter Krantz
Date: Aug 10, 2007 12:40AM

On 8/10/07, Webb, KerryA < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Paul asked:
> >
> > Which leads me to my next question; does anybody on here use Dublin
> > Core metadata?
> >
> Apologies for coming in late to this.

Ditto.

>
> Various governments have mandated the use of metadata on their
> government agency websites, generally based on Dublin Core, but it's
> fallen out of favour. We in the Australian Capital Territory Government
> still require some metadata elements for record-keeping purposes, but
> we've acknowledged that subject and keyword metadata isn't much use at
> all, even with our internal search facility.
>

In Sweden the guidelines for public websites mandates the use of
Dublin Core. (Last time a check was made, 18% of the websites were
using DC metadata to some extent). Reasons for including DC in the
guidelines are:

- Providing data for the government portal and search engine www.sverige.se.
- Teaching site owners about Dublin Core as a structured way of
providing metadata.

The ambition is that as more pages are classified with metadata, users
will be able to quickly find specific information across websites
through the government portal. Hopefully other search engines and
crawlers will make use of this data too.

Regards,

Peter