Who can benefit from using Dublin Core metadata?
Anyone can use Dublin core metadata to describe the resources of an information system. Web pages are one of the most common types of resources to utilize the Dublin Core’s descriptions, usually within HTML’s meta tags however increasingly there are many digital archives of physical objects that are starting to make use of the Dublin Core. Dublin Core metadata is being used as the basis for descriptive systems by several community interest groups such as: • educational organizations • libraries • government institutions • scientific research sector • Web page authors • businesses requiring more searchable sites • corporations with vast knowledge management systems (See also our listing of Dublin Core-based projects).
