> Dear all
>
> I've only recently joined this list and I still have a lot to
> learn about metadata in general and Dublin Core specifically
> but I'd like to ask an early question if I may.
>
> The content management system we use to store our curriculum
> web pages creates DC tags in the HTML page header thus
>
> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="David Davies">
> <meta name="DC.Format" content="text/html">
> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en">
...
> More specifically, I would like to know if anyone knows of a
> search engine that can explicitly make use of these tags by
> allowing a complex search query? Say I have a multilingual
> site and I want to pull out pages where DC.Language" = "en".
> I'd need to be able to construct a search query that allowed
> input of one or more DC meta tags as qualifiers. Anyone any
> ideas if there's a search engine that does this?
Hi David
I wrote a short paper on "A Lightweight Approach To Support Of
Resource Discovery Standards" which is available at
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/www9/resource-discovery/> which
described how we have been providing DC-aware searching using a
mainstream search engine. Specifically this described the use of the
Microsoft SiteServer indexing tool to search one (now two) of our
e-journals.
See the search facility at <http://www.exploit-lib.org/search/> and
<http://www.exploit-lib.org/cat_search/>.
It's disappointing that DC-aware searching can be provided by this
licensed Microsoft product, whereas the much more popular open source
product ht://Dig does not allow this.
BTW there is some expertise within Birmingham on the approach I've
described - Ian Upton was involved in similar work for the eLib project
BUILDER.
Brian
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Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
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