Library Cataloging
This is the announcement of the publication of the first version (1,0 beta) of DescribeThis, a service designed for the automatic extraction of metadata from online resources. The site offers an easy to use interface where you can indicate the resource to analyze and how to download the results as XML, XHTML or RDF files.In the current version (1.0 BETA), the site's engine is able to find the resources to process using keywords, full URLs or more complex queries with operators, like "ISBN", used to collect the bibliographic data for published documents. In the first case it works as a metasearch engine using other search engines to locate the best sites where the resource can be found. The results returned back contains all the recognized and generated Dublin Core elements for the requested resource and can be downloaded as RDF, XML or XHTML collections.DescribeThis's main fields of applications:
- Metadata Markup
Now available: Cordes, Christopher Sean (2005) Creating HTML Meta-tags with the Dublin Core Element Set. Tutorial.The breadth and scope of information available online and through intranets are making the standardization and use of metadata to identify...
- Mksearch
MKDoc Ltd. has announced the first beta release of MKSearch, under the GNU General Public Licence. Source and pre-compiled binary downloads are available from the project Web site.MKSearch is a metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in...
- Dublin Core
A new version - 0.2(beta)- of Dublin Core Services/Describethis has been published. This new version, as main feature, brings us an automatic generator of keywords: DCS incorporates now a dictionary of 5300 words in 11 different languages, included Catalan,...
- Metadata For Web Pages
Matthew Eberle at Library Techlog asked if I knew of any search engines that used Dublin Core metadata. The answer is yes and no. The regular search engines we all use can not make use of it, or very limited use. Search Engine Watch has details on how...
- Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata initiative is positioned to be one of the components in the semantic web. An easy tool for creating DC metadata is DC Dot Simply enter the URL of the page you desire data for and DC Dot sends back the metadata. It can output in...
Library Cataloging
Dublin Core
This is the announcement of the publication of the first version (1,0 beta) of DescribeThis, a service designed for the automatic extraction of metadata from online resources. The site offers an easy to use interface where you can indicate the resource to analyze and how to download the results as XML, XHTML or RDF files.In the current version (1.0 BETA), the site's engine is able to find the resources to process using keywords, full URLs or more complex queries with operators, like "ISBN", used to collect the bibliographic data for published documents. In the first case it works as a metasearch engine using other search engines to locate the best sites where the resource can be found. The results returned back contains all the recognized and generated Dublin Core elements for the requested resource and can be downloaded as RDF, XML or XHTML collections.DescribeThis's main fields of applications:
- To support and extend the application and development of the Dublin Core format as one of most appropriate metadata standards to describe or catalog resources, digitals or not.To use the site as a tool to support the cataloguing of online resources, oriented to information specialists and Internet users in general.To deliver services of automatic metadata management, designed for managers of bibliographic and content databases.To create an efficient way for administrators and website authors to dynamically provide metadata information about their sites to page crawlers, bots, spiders, agents, worms and other automatic indexing and site classification systems, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the whole Internet content organization.
- HTML and XHTML DocumentsDublin Core/RDFDublin Core/XMLDublin Core/HTML (META tags)GIF, JPG (EXIF) and other image formatsRSSbibTexproprietary Formats XML (ex.: Amazon XML Web Services)
- Metadata Markup
Now available: Cordes, Christopher Sean (2005) Creating HTML Meta-tags with the Dublin Core Element Set. Tutorial.The breadth and scope of information available online and through intranets are making the standardization and use of metadata to identify...
- Mksearch
MKDoc Ltd. has announced the first beta release of MKSearch, under the GNU General Public Licence. Source and pre-compiled binary downloads are available from the project Web site.MKSearch is a metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in...
- Dublin Core
A new version - 0.2(beta)- of Dublin Core Services/Describethis has been published. This new version, as main feature, brings us an automatic generator of keywords: DCS incorporates now a dictionary of 5300 words in 11 different languages, included Catalan,...
- Metadata For Web Pages
Matthew Eberle at Library Techlog asked if I knew of any search engines that used Dublin Core metadata. The answer is yes and no. The regular search engines we all use can not make use of it, or very limited use. Search Engine Watch has details on how...
- Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata initiative is positioned to be one of the components in the semantic web. An easy tool for creating DC metadata is DC Dot Simply enter the URL of the page you desire data for and DC Dot sends back the metadata. It can output in...