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General This window is likely to disappear behind your other windows once you start editing so position it somewhere that it will remain visible if possible. All of the editing text boxes may scroll text out of the top of the box unexpectedly! Use the scroll bars to move the text back into view. Using Dublin Core Cut and paste the generated Dublin Core HTML <meta> tags into your Web page using a text editor (or similar tool). <meta> tags must be placed somewhere between the <head> and </head> tags. DC <meta> tags can be given multiple times if necessary (for example, to show several authors) but this tool currently only allows you to generate one of each. About the Dublin Core Finding information on the World Wide Web has become increasingly problematic in proportion to the explosive growth of available resources. Web indexing evolved rapidly to fill the demand for resource discovery tools, but indexing, while enormously useful, is a poor substitute for richer varieties of resource description. An invitational workshop in March of 1995 brought together librarians, digital library researchers, and text-markup specialists to address the problem of resource description for networked resources. This activity evolved into a series of related workshops and ancillary activities that have become known collectively as the Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series. This report summarizes the state of this effort. The initial motivation for the first workshop was simply to do something that would improve the prospects for resource discovery on the Web. Specifically, the goal was to identify a simple set of common description elements that authors (or content managers) could embed in their documents to promote their discovery -- something like a catalog card for a network resource. The term "Dublin Core Metadata Element Set" applies to this simple core of descriptive elements. Ackowledgements DC-dot was developed by UKOLN, University of Bath. UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives & Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based. |