Dublin core, Google and SEO

If you look at source of this webpage, you will notice some unusual meta tags like:

These peculiar looking meta are actually Dublin core.

What is this Dublin core actually is?

The Dublin Core is set of metadata which provides a small group of text elements through which most resources can be described. Dublin Core metadata can describe physical resources such as and composite media like web pages. Metadata records based on Dublin Core have become standard in the fields of library science and computer science.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable meta data standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.

Does Google Search Engine reads Dublin core?

“…Google do not (currently) read DC metadata. They’re indexing HTML pages, and expect to find normal HTML metas.

Continue to use DC by all means, but do it in addition to HTML standards, not instead of, if you want it to be accessible to the widest range of user agents.”

Update on 30th Jan, 2014 : Google does understand Dublin Core now for few elements. See the below resources :

Then why you are using the Dublin core in your WordPress blog?

We think Dublin core should be used as to mark a page for standard reference.

Dublin core and SEO?

This is very contradictory topic. Using Dublin core meta is good if used but no harm if not used.

Dublin core and WordPress?

There are many free WordPress plugins to deploy Dublin core meta in WordPress posts and pages.  We are using Dublin Core for WP plugin.

Dublin core for static HTML pages

You can use this online tool to generate Dublin core :