Re: Meta tags and Keyword usage

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Rev. Mama Lani (lani@lava.net)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:27:35 -1000 (HST)

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Al Gilman wrote:
>to follow up on what Rev. Mama Lani said:
>> I perused the LC web site (http://www.loc.gov) but couldn't
>> find their subject headings online. If there is interest I'll
>> check around with other librarians.
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>First, what you are suggesting (using LOC terms in META keywords)
>is good for all web pages in terms of making content findable and
>discriminable. Not just FAQs.

Yes, it would be a Good Thing for web pages in general.

>Do you have any objections to my touting this idea with the
>metadata people at W3C? We might be able to get it rolled into a
>demo that gets talked about in the RDF rollout hoopla.

That would be an excellent idea, Al. In talking with Kent he'd mentioned
it as well, and I really couldn't begin to tell you how wonderful that
would be. I realize it would not be implemented by all web page creators
and would probably not be as clean as if they were done by professional
catalogers, but it's most definitely an improvement (and a big leap toward
the concept of the WWW as being searchable). I don't know if the W3C team
has resident librarians, but I would be more than happy to help directly,
or to refer them to others.

Thanks, Al.

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