Even in the early days of the Web, developers enlisted the help of these information scientists and architects, realizing that otherwise we'd be in for quite a mess. An interdisciplinary, international group founded in 1994, the DCMI's charter is to use a minimal set of metadata constructs to make it easier to find things on the Web. We'll take a closer look at Dublin Core in a moment. This can be quite constructive, even revolutionary, but it also risks being hugely destructive in that we can throw out lessons previously learned from the Web experience. Consequently, the vast majority of web-related tools lack any common infrastructure for specifying or using the properties of web content.
Search engines provide little room for registering metadata along with their associated sites.
This has resulted in an enormous hodgepodge of a data set with little rhyme or reason. The Web is hardly the intricately organized masterpiece represented by its namesake in nature. These communities have the opportunity, before heterogeneity and ubiquity muddy the waters, to describe and codify their semantics to allow for better organization, extraction, and search functionality down the road. Yet even at this early stage, we're already seeing the same mistakes creeping in. Inc. All Rights Reserved.