> > From: davidmsl@anti.tesi.dsi.unimi.it (Davide Musella)
> > Subject: Meta Tag - proposal (suggestions ???)
> > To: www-html@w3.org (Mailing list di html)
> > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 12:29:33 +0100 (MET)
> > Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Milan, Italy.
>
> > Request for comments, suggestions, etc...
>
> The META tag could benefit greatly from HTTP-EQUIV's for "revision"
> (as in 'revision number') and 'timestamp' (as in 'date/time the
> document was authored').
>
> Librarians -- electronic or otherwise -- keep track of different
> versions of a document in many professions. This is crucial in
> situations where one needs to track changes in documents over
> time -- as frequently happens in legal, engineering, purchasing, and
> technical support activities. I would rate the importance of these
> as "high" since one cannot do serious document management
> without these concepts.
Yes, this is very important.
> An interesting "nice" feature would be an HTTP-EQUIV for 'period' (as
> in 'the document covers the stated period'). This would be used to
> organize information so that one can organize/retrieve by historical
> time period (eg: "give me all documents where 'title' contains
> 'United Nations' and 'period' contains '1945').
Yes, this would be nice but I would not consider it for reasons of
simplicity.
Rob...