Hi. The situation that Thomas describes also occurs with other DC
applications, such as the EdNA directory service (at
http://www.edna.edu.au). That is, the metadata is transparent. Perhaps we
should be applying more little green apples or some other form of
endorsement.
Debbie
Metadata Coordinator
National Initiatives And Collaboration Branch
ph. 02 6262 1673
fx. 02 6273 4535
e-mail [log in to unmask]
http://purl.nla.gov.au/metaweb/home
> ----------
> From: Thomas Hofmann[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 1998 7:55 PM
> To: Ed McNeeley; meta2
> Subject: Re: Search Engines
>
> Hello Ed,
>
> Regarding the Australian Museums Online web site (AMOL) and Dublin
> Core:
>
> AMOL comprises about 250 pages of textual information related to
> museums issues as well as 1000 "pages" about museum and 350.000
> "pages" about museums objects (soon to be 600.000).
>
> The 250 pages of museums issues don't have Dublin Core attached yet
> as we wanted to wait for the CIMI best practice guide for Dublin Core
> in museums. The same goes for the 1000 "pages" of information about
> museums. As for the object "records" we have been using Dublin Core
> since September 1997.
>
> Take a look at http://amol.org.au/collection/collections_index.asp
> where you can search the collection "records". The interface allows
> you to search in 5 different fields. Don't be fooled by the naming of
> the fields. You are actually search over Dublin Core metatags embedded
> in HTML documents. By the way this information doesn't actually come
> from a database it's indexed with Verity's Search97 Information Server.
> (The same technology Altavista is using...)
>
> Why I hear you ask. Because the records come from a distributed system.
> Rather than importing all records to a central database we left the
> control over the information with the museums.
>
> We are currently testing the use of XML again with Dublin Core as
> the schema.
>
> Ed McNeeley wrote:
> > ...few pages from institutions that could be considered close to the
> > issue and I think the problem is much closer to home than Alta
> > Vista.
> >...
> > - At http://amol.org.au/ is see "NAME=title", "NAME=keywords",
> > and "NAME=description"
>
> We included these metatags because the majority of search engines
> recognize and index them.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
> --
>
> Thomas Hofmann
> [technical producer]
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