Meta tags what are DC.tags?

[Steven1976a]

Hi one of our competition use two sets of Meta tags and I was hoping that someone will be able to advise me what the difference in the tags are?

I wanted to know why they have two sets or even three sets of meta tags using the DC tag?

Should I include them on my website??

<META name="description" content=

<META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT

Steven

[ctabuk]

Description tags are still considered to be of some influence to the SE's, but more and more positive reports are coming in from results taken directly from the phrases of context found on and in your page titles. Only ever copy an idea, if it is definitely working for your competitors.If you are not certain who your competitors are, then go to the marketing forum and follow my stickies.

[minstrel]

I've only seen that second type of meta tag on government sites. I'm not certain what they are but my assumption was that they were used for internal indexing / site search.

I've never seen any published references to them as valid general meta tags.

[Steven1976a]

the site does very well for a lot of competitive searches in relation to jewelry and jewellery if anyone wants to have a look at their tags you can see it at wwwdanish.com . any more comments after looking would be good to see if people think they are worth including
ste

[minstrel]

http://www.sics.se/~preben/DC/description_help.html

Dublin Core Element : Description

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4 Description
DC element syntax : DC.Description

DC Element Description:
A textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts in the case of document-like objects or content descriptions in the case of visual resources. Future metadata collections might well include computational content description (spectral analysis of a visual resource, for example) that may not be embeddable in current network systems. In such a case this field might contain a link to such a description rather than the description itself.

The default is an abstract or a freetext description of the resource.

DC Qualifiers:


SCHEME:
URL
The value of this element is a URL to an external representation of the description of the resource.
TYPE:
Example :

<META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="A textual description of the content
of the resource, including abstracts in the case of document-like objects
or content descriptions in the case of visual resources.">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#description">

<META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="(SCHEME=URL) http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#description">

http://www.loc.gov/marc/dc/descripti...sion_prop.html

DC-Libraries Working Group
Proposal: Version qualifier for Description element
13 April 2002
This proposal is for review by Dublin Core community. It proposes a new element refinement Version for the element DC:Description that is included in the proposed DC-Library Application Profile. This review period is 15 April-11 May 2002.

http://www.valdosta.edu/~gfrost/dcdescription.html

The description element is intended for the creator of the document to describe the documents content. The description can be a simple, short sentence or a full abstract. Descriptions can be for textual documents or image documents. The table is as follows:


TYPE Freetext (default)
SCHEME (brief description) Internal (default) DC language
LANG (default=English) Standard ISO 639

TYPE Abstract
SCHEME URL (points at a description of resource

SCHEME URN (pointing to an external source with description

The description of the document is pretty simple to do. The average person will only want to have a general description of the Web page. For this, only the the bare bones DC element is needed. For example:

<META NAME="DC.description" CONTENT="This is a guide providing procedures for the application of Dublin Core Metadata to Web pages.">

If the author wanted to provide a complete abstract about the document, the TYPE qualifier value abstract would be appended to the description like the creator and subject elements. In other words:

<META NAME="DC.description.abstract" CONTENT="Yeah...Yeah...Yeah...this is really long...standard abstract size...Blah...blah...blah.">
The URL and URN SCHEMEs are intended to point to these descriptions in an external location, in other words in a separate document.