>Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 12:20:07 -0600
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: betsy richmond <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Search Engines
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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>Dear Mr. Hofmann,
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>Re:
>>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.
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>I am curious as to how this works. As I understand it, if there is not a
central database, the metadata is an "announcement" only - the imbeded
descriptive data is not the same as when the information in records which
are created is encoded in a system. How do you keep up with changes
(deletions etc.). New to this and thanking you so much in advance.
>
>Betsy Richmond
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>At 08:55 AM 12/2/98 +0000, you wrote:
>>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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>>www: http://amol.org.au/
>>phone: + 61 (2) 92170 - 400
>>fax: + 61 (2) 92170 - 616
>>snailmail: AMOL Coordination Unit
>> 500 Harris Street
>> 2006 Ultimo, NSW
>> Australia
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Elizabeth B. Richmond, Assistant Professor
Reference Department
McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
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