Metadata Analysis Of A Selection of FE College Web Sites In the South West

A pilot survey of the availability of Dublin Core metadata on the home pages of a sample of FE College Web sites in the south west has been carried out. The survey makes use of UKOLN's Dublin Core Validator.

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Findings

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

**Table 1: Findings**
	Project	DC Metadata Used?	Other Metadata?	Comments	Validate Metadata
1	Exeter College	N	Y		Validate
2	North Devon College	N	Y		Validate
3	Penwith College	N	N		Validate
4	Richard Huish College	N	Y		Validate
5	Swindon College	N	N		Validate
6	Weymouth College	N	Y		Validate
7	RSC South West	N	Y		Validate

The information in the table was collected on 19^th November 2002.

Notes

Please note the following:

Only the entry points have been analysed.
Only an automated analysis has been carried out.
The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

**Table 2: Use of DC Metadata**
DC Metadata Used	0	0%
No DC Metadata Found	7	100%