Survey Of Use Of Embedded Dublin Core Metadata In Selected Resources On the LSE Library Web Site (June 2003)

A survey of the availability of Dublin Core metadata embedded in selected resources on the LSE Library Web site has been carried out. The survey makes use of UKOLN's DC-dot tool.

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Findings

A summary of the findings is given in the following table.

Table 1: Key Pages

	Resource	DC Metadata Used?	Valid DC?	Validate DC
1	Library entry point	Y (10 tags)	Y (but warnings)	Check
2	Library projects	Y (10 tags)	Y (but warnings)	Check
3	Library catalogue Note session	N		Check
4	Gateway to electronic library	N		Check
5	Course Packs	Y (10 tags)	Y (but warnings)	Check

 

The information in the table was collected on 17^th June 2003.

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 1: Use of DC Metadata

DC Metadata Used	3	60%
No DC Metadata Found	2	40%
Metadata Could Not Be Processed	0	0%