<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Danny Ayers wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1f2ed5cd0510121313t6e15d477pd7f38d9f5b74f7b2@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 10/12/05, Tantek Çelik <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tantek@cs.stanford.edu"><tantek@cs.stanford.edu></a> wrote: Even Dublin Core is more </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">theory than practice on the Web, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> How did you measure that? I tried Google with "purl.org/dc" which produces 298,000 hits, but those are all *about* DC, which is still consistent with theory over practice.</pre> </blockquote> Hm. A small subset of extant DC documents is aggregated here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/">http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/</a> 5,914,431 records from  536 institutions (updated 30 September 2005) No, not merely theory. -- Stephen <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Stephen Downes ~ Research Officer ~ National Research Council Canada <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.downes.ca">http://www.downes.ca</a> ~ <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stephen@downes.ca">stephen@downes.ca</a> __\|/__ Free Learning -- </pre> </body> </html>