On Mon, 14 Apr 1997,Paul Miller wrote:
> As far as web-wide searching goes, none of the biggies are yet using
> Dublin Core (perhaps partly our fault, as we have continued to squabble
> over semantics and syntax for longer than was good for us). However, a
> number of projects such as the AHDS and its Service Providers are looking
> at extensive use of DC for our search systems, and DSTC's prototype search
> engine (http://www.dstc.edu.au/cgi-bin/RDU/Harvest/meta_simple_query.cgi)
> makes use of DC for those sites it has been informed about...
>
> As for simply using Alta Vista's limited <META> tagging... do you really
> feel it's ENOUGH? Dublin Core is, admittedly, not all things to all
> people, but it's surely better than a simple list of keywords a la Alta
> Vista?
No indeed. My thought was not really between Dublin Core and
AltaVista, it was really a matter of (given the
"not-quite-yet-adopted" status of Dublin Core) whether AltaVista was
better than nothing. Here at Education-line we think our own search
interface, tied to the British Education Index thesaurus is pretty
well unbeatable - but people do have to find us first, and since we
are indexing our texts for the BRS database already, it would be
very little trouble to write a routine for heading up the HTML page
while we were about it.
Sam
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