From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 09:34:40 EDT
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 03:21, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote in
> news:1021400246.22398.88.camel@a227.appligent.com:
>
> >> No, it's actually not. 'Subject' == 'Keywords'!
> >> <URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ >:
> >
> > Actually, I was addressing the fact that I really *disliked*
> > their globbing of Subject+Keywords into the same tag.
>
> Well, it's only an (arguably) poor choice of name. Scientific
> papers and books include a list of 'subjects' covered, and Web
> pages include a list of 'keywords' or 'key phrases', but they're
> basically the same thing.
These guys need to get a good grip on semantics and the proper usage of
several English words. They're using words that are related, but not
synonyms as though they were synonyms.
Subject != Keywords. Even "Subjects Covered or Topics" != Keywords.
Maybe they are similar but it's still not (nearly) correct. "Subject" is
much closer to "Description" semantically, but Descriptions are much
longer than Subjects in practice (where description = a 1+ sentence
summary). So what they're saying is:
Subject = Description != Subject
which just doesn't make sense to me....
Subject = Topic
Description = 1+ sentences about Subject (summary)
Keywords = Indexable words related to subject, description, author
Dom
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