Library Cataloging
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 the major services handle metadata. There do exist some data harvesters that do recognize and use DC metadata. The OAI uses it. The Advanced Search Facility can use Dublin Core as well as GILS and other formats. The Hotmeta Metadata Search Engine is another capable of harvesting and using DC. Will your site be hit by any of these? Not likely, unless you are part of a project or consortium that has decided to use these tools to create a database of member resources.
- Search Engines And Resource Discovery On The Web
Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor? by Mehdi Safari appears in Webology 2(2).This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Dublin Core metadata elements on the retrieval of web pages in a suite of six search...
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- 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...
- 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...
- Metadata
At the LITA National Forum this weekend, Clifford Lynch used a definition of metadata that made some sense to me. He said metadata was a statement by someone about a resource. The inclusion of the agent creating the metadata in the definition, is important...
Library Cataloging
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 the major services handle metadata. There do exist some data harvesters that do recognize and use DC metadata. The OAI uses it. The Advanced Search Facility can use Dublin Core as well as GILS and other formats. The Hotmeta Metadata Search Engine is another capable of harvesting and using DC. Will your site be hit by any of these? Not likely, unless you are part of a project or consortium that has decided to use these tools to create a database of member resources.
I do not see search engines making use of DC because of the trust issue. It is just too easy to misrepresent the site and create spam. Inside a group where trust exists, resources can be described in greater detail using metadata and related tools. For example, the American Geophysical Union could create a database of resources at member institutions sites. Or NASA could index their own pages using metadata.
- Search Engines And Resource Discovery On The Web
Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor? by Mehdi Safari appears in Webology 2(2).This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Dublin Core metadata elements on the retrieval of web pages in a suite of six search...
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- 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...
- 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...
- Metadata
At the LITA National Forum this weekend, Clifford Lynch used a definition of metadata that made some sense to me. He said metadata was a statement by someone about a resource. The inclusion of the agent creating the metadata in the definition, is important...