I am working on a small site that for various reasons I would like to include the DC meta elements in. I have read through a number of older news articles that seem to indicate that the elements are completely ignored. Does this still hold true? I ran through the Matt Cutts blog but while there were a few people asking about it, nobody had ever answered. I suspect this has been covered elsewhere, but the search terms I have thought of have apparently been too generic. SD
I was looking at the markup here: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/ I've never even heard of Dublin Core before or seen this type of meta data on a site. I've no idea what search engines recognise it. They go back a long though as their news sites as items from 1996 onwards.
I think you are missing the point. I was not asking what is effective, I was asking what impact having both would have. There are a number of DC tags that are not in the standard metadata set.
The DC set is simply the equivalent of a MARC record for a webpage. It allows you to store a lot more data in a standardized format. You rarely see it on a commercial page but it is common on pages for a library, museum, etc.