Does google ignore DC metadata? I saw this post about google and OAI ages ago, and wondered if perhaps they harvest it but haven't told anyone?
http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2005/09/using-oai-pmh-with-google-sitemaps.html
Jim
Jim O'Donnell (Dr.)
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National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
London SE10 9NF
Tel: 020 8312 6517
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
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> Ottevanger, Jeremy
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> Subject: Re: Google Coop / Museum collections
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> Nice one Mike.
>
> Google will certainly be able to do a lot with their regular
> brute force approach. If we could somehow have that
> conversation with Google to get them to use the DC data that
> is out there and being wasted it could do even more!
>
> I've been looking rather ignorantly at Nutch to see whether
> such a spider could be adapted to our own purposes. There is
> already a project to extend it to search microformats and for
> those who know how I guess this could be adapted to our own
> or to process DC MD or whatever. Wouldn't that be nice? Then
> we could be searching more structured data, perhaps combining
> it with regular text indexing. Sounds like a job for someone
> quite centrally placed, though. Whereas your co-op SE is
> ready to roll and churning out results immediately - great stuff.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
> Jeremy Ottevanger
> Web Developer, Museum Systems Team
> Museum of London Group
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> London. N1 7ED
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