The search engines stopped paying attention to metadata embedded in
web pages years ago because it was too easy to spam:
Death Of A Meta Tag
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2165061
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
Metadata & the World Wide Web
(* shameless self-promotion warning *)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/metadata.html
(A new edition of the Getty's Introduction to Metadata is due out in
early 2007)
However, the rise of tagging and folksonomies may address many of
these issues.
T.
At 07:51 AM 2006-12-18, you wrote:
> > "it would be great if they were interested in the idea"
>
>I can't find the original source, but I remember reading - many years
>ago - an interview with one of the Google founders (probably Sergey
>Brin), where he plainly stated that Google weren't interested in
>'metadata'; he basically said Google would only use content that was
>designed for humans, not content (data) that was designed for machines
>(i.e. metadata). Not sure if the company's strategy has moved on since
>then.
>
>Following on from Mike's original idea, maybe it would be interested to
>take this one step on, and use Google Base, populated using the APIs
>(http://code.google.com/apis/base/), to store specific structures about
>museum objects (i.e. we could define specific fields, like date,
>creator, all the usual dc stuff). It might even be relatively
>straightforward to create an OAI interface that fed into the Google Base
>API, maybe? i.e. anyone who had an OAI compatible object repository
>could then feed straight into Google Base.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> > Ottevanger, Jeremy
> > Sent: 18 December 2006 12:35
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: SPAM:Re: [MCG] Google Coop / Museum collections
> >
> > 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
> >
>
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T.
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