Very interesting, thanks for that pointer. It reads as though they're
just interested in the identifier, though. Doing anything useful with
collections data in museum webpages would involve rather more, although
it would be great if they were interested in the idea. From what people
were saying at the last Semantic Web Thinktank meeting, there are
clearly considerable reservations about what DC can usefully achieve in
full SW terms, but all the same the stuff is out there and it's surely
better than nothing, despite its limitations.
Jeremy
Jeremy Ottevanger
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Museum of London Group
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Jim O'Donnell
Sent: 18 December 2006 11:58
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Subject: SPAM:Re: [MCG] Google Coop / Museum collections
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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Ottevanger, Jeremy
> Sent: 18 December 2006 11:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Google Coop / Museum collections
>
>
> 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
> 46 Eagle Wharf Road
> London. N1 7ED
> Tel: 020 7410 2207
> Fax: 020 7600 1058
> Email: [log in to unmask] www.museumoflondon.org.uk
>
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