DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

April 5, 2010

In the previous post, I talked about including geographical information in your metadata. This post continues on by looking at standardizing on metadata information for websites.

In 1995, a workshop took place in Dublin, Ohio and the objective was to develop interoperable metadata standards. The Organization that came out of that workshop is called the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).

Geotagging a website

March 24, 2010

Adding geographical identification (or geotagging) to a website during the development cycle hasn’t been standard practice in my books. Although I must say its rather interesting and the syntax is pretty straightforward.