[LINK] Dublin Core is 15!

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Webb, KerryA wrote:
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>> bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Marghanita da Cruz
>> Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 1:26 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [LINK] Dublin Core is 15!
>>
>> whatever happened to Dublin Core?
>>
> 
> In Australia, it morphed into AGLS and AS 5044, which are being used by
> Australian Government bodies.
> 
>> I diligently marked up Annandale on the Web, since
>> 1998,....but I can't see that it makes any difference....
>>
> 
> It won't, except that Google will pick up the Description tag to display
> in search results.
> 

Actually I just checked, as I included both fields (but
found they had different text):

Google picks up
<meta name="description

rather than
<meta name="dc.Description"

Though I don't think I ever included dc.description
in preference to just plain description....better safe
than sorry. So, I can't confirm your claim.

Marghanita


> Just about everybody ignores the other tags.
> 
> Kerry 
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