On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Stu Weibel wrote:
> CON: for searching purposes, indexing of ABSTRACT seperately from SUBJECT
> is unlikely to have a significant impact on discovery.
>
But enabling the searcher to read a description of a resource before
linking to it does have a significant impact...
I would prefer to call this element description. This reflects the usage
in the ROADs services where it is used to give information about the
structure of more complex documents, context etc
Rachel
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Rachel Heery, Metadata Projects Co-ordinator
UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking)
University of Bath tel: +44 (0)1225 826724
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