The birth of our system for describing web content | Aeon Essays
February 28, 2024
Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
The result … was ‘Dublin Core’ (DC) metadata, the first metadata standard for describing content on the web. The final short group of DC tags, or metadata ‘elements’, was drawn from a longer list that had been developed, iterated, analysed, argued over, and eventually cut down to a list of 13
Source: The birth of our system for describing web content | Aeon Essays
Today after many year is learned that the “Dublin” in Dublin Core is named after Dublin Ohio, not Dublin Ireland. A great mini-history of the origins of Information Architecture.
