SEO and Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES)
The Dublin Core, like the Microformats, is a set of metadata
used to describe the content of a website to be easily deciphered by search
engines and therefore be better ranked and become more optimized.
The original set of Dublin Core Metadata Set (DCMES) consists
of 15 metadata terms:
- Title
- Creator
- Subject
- Description
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Date
- Type
- Format
- Identifier
- Source
- Language
- Relation
- Coverage
- Rights
Each Dublin Core element is optional and may be repeated. The
terms can be used to describe a full range of web resources: video, images, web
pages etc. and physical resources such as books and objects like artworks. The
full set of Dublin Core metadata terms can be found on the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI) website.
Example of code
<meta name="DC.Publisher"
content="publisher-name" >
"Dublin" refers to Dublin, Ohio, USA where the
work originated during the 1995 invitational OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop,
hosted in by Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a library consortium based
there, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
"Core" refers to the metadata terms as "broad and generic being
usable for describing a wide range of resources". The semantics of Dublin
Core were established and are maintained by an international,
cross-disciplinary group of professionals from librarianship, computer science,
text encoding, museums, and other related fields of scholarship and practice.
Source: Wikipedia
