On 07/16/2010 03:03 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
This is also a problem with Wikimedia Commons.
It would take 5 minutes to implement the suggested support for "Dublin core" metadata in the MediaWiki software. Why is this in the 5 year strategic plan? Actually adding the content of metadata to all pages could be a 5 year project, but not the software support.
On my website, http://runeberg.org/ I have included Dublin core metadata for more than a decade (see for example http://runeberg.org/affdyaff/ ), but nobody ever thanked me for this, and none of the pages were included in Worldcat because of this. Visitors find the website through Google full text search or by direct links from Wikipedia and other sites, nobody reports having discovered the site through the DC metadata.
I must be missing something. Why is DC metadata so important? Could you give an example of a website that does this and actually benefits from it?