Folks,
I hate to send URLs that will evaporate in a few days to our list, but the
attached pointer to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education is
relevant to the interests of our community (the Chronicle is perhaps the
most influential organ of its ilk among American academia).
The article points out the trend towards interest in metadata on the part of
search engines that seems to have developed momentum in the past year.
While it does not mention DC in particular, it does allude to OAI, the
native metadata format for which is DC.
We've all been asked many times... "Do Search Engines use metadata, and why
or why not?" It would seem that the answer is, in part, that having reached
the limits of effectiveness of open harvesting and indexing, they are now
looking for new ways to improve search and bring greater amounts of the so
called 'dark Web' into online visibility.
This trend is likely to continue, and is likely to be a boon to scholars,
other library users, and to the search services themselves. Who'd a thunk
it?
Thanks to my colleague Lynn Connaway for bringing this to my attention.
stu
This article, "Libraries Aim to Widen Google's Eyes," is
available online at this address:
http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=286xoqnq0z0ejh57v2i0aoosm38w9p5q
This article will be available to non-subscribers of The
Chronicle for up to five days after it is e-mailed.
The article is always available to Chronicle subscribers at this
address:
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i37/37a00101.htm
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