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Lorna
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> From: "Jon Mason" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 22 October 2004 02:57:47 BST
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> Subject: FW: New site devoted to Dublin Core and automatic metadata
> extraction
>
>
> FYI - apologies for any cross posting
>
> This is the announcement of the publication of the first version (1,0
> beta) of DescribeThis (http://www.describethis.com), 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 (see
> http://www.describethis.com/help/search.html). 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.
>
> In the describethis.com front page you can find several samples to
> illustrate the normal operation of the service.
>
> About Dublin Core Services
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> DescribeThis is a gateway to the functions of analysis, automatic
> conversion and filtration of digital resources and formats, included
> as part of a group of web services and tools called Sand Dublin Core
> Services (DCS). DCS provides support and software infrastructure to
> develop metadata management applications and services
>
> In this version, DCS can automatically analyze and to generate
> metadata registers for the following formats:
> - HTML and XHTML Documents
> - Dublin Core/RDF
> - Dublin Core/XML
> - Dublin Core/HTML (META tags)
> - GIF, JPG (EXIF) and other image formats
> - RSS
> - bibTex
> - proprietary Formats XML (ex.: Amazon XML Web Services)
>
> Support for other well-known formats like PDF, MARC , stream formats
> (MP3, MPEG, etc), OAI directories, FOAF networks and others will be
> added in the near future. A more complete information about available
> features of DescribeThis and DCS will be added on the Sand corporate
> website as soon as possible.
>
> Jon
>
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Lorna M. Campbell
Assistant Director, CETIS
University of Strathclyde
+44 (0)141 548 3072
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
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