We characterize metrizable
separable spaces X such that almost every, in the sense of Baire category, embedding
h of X into the Hilbert cube Iω provides a compact extension h(X) such that the
remainder h(X)∖ h(X) has certain dimensional property (for instance, is
n-dimensional, countable-dimensional or “metrically weakly infinite-dimensional”).
We obtain a characterization of metrizable separable spaces which have large
transfinite dimension by means of compactifications. Two examples related to the
results mentioned above are constructed.