meta tags?

[indodpendo]

For some reason i would goto a stie a vew source to see the code of the meta tags and i see some new tag that i havent knowen.

<meta name="DC.title" content="">
<meta name="DC.identifier" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="DC.description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="DC.type" scheme="" content="">
<meta name="DC.format" scheme="IMT" content="text/HTML">
<meta name="DC.language" scheme="ISO 639-2" content="en">
<meta name="DC.date.valid" scheme="ISO 8601" content="">
<meta name="ED.office" scheme="" content="Institute of Education Sciences (IES)">
<meta name="DC.publisher" content="">

[encyclo]

The "DC" meta tags are defined by the Dublin Core metadata initiative [dublincore.org] and are helpful in classifying documents on, say, a company intranet. None of the major search engines use them.