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Originally Posted by Toxaris
The publishers do not care about most metadata
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That's blatantly false.
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Lack of metadata values like 'First Name', etc, lies with the Dublin Core, not ePUB.
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If EPUB mandates the use of DC vocabulary in plain text form, it is problem of EPUB. There are simply no alternatives to it.
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Most reader applications or readers support only the core metadata, if at all!
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Because they cannot rely on EPUB metadata. With clearly defined scheme, that support will be trivial.
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For a good search program or library program it matters not if the name is split in a first name and last name. They can search and sort either way. Most names follow quite simple rules.
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"John Smith", "Arthur Conan Doyle", "Johannes van der Waals" and "Murakami Haruki" all parse in different way, and there is no way for library software to do that automatically without errors.