"S.R.Whittaker" wrote:
> I am a library student doing a project on how the non-specialist
> user might use dublin core metadata. It would be very helpful if
> anyone can help with the following:
>
> 1. Are there any existing sites/documents using dublin core that
> has been created by non library/information specialists?
>
> 2. Is it possible to make any search engines search for specific
> dublin core elements? or are there any search facilities for this
> at present?
The project (Fast Metadata) I am working on on behalf of Fast Search
and Transfer seems to be of the kind project you are looking for.
Fast Search and Transfer is a manufacturer of commercial search
Internet engines. We plan to make our search engine DC metadata
aware. Further, we plan to make it search for metadata put on the
Internet by non-specialists (i.e. by the creator of an Internet
resource, or by anyone who cares suffisciently about increasing
the chances of a particular resource to be discovered that they
are willing to create metadata for it).
The project, however, is still in its early stages, At the moment,
I am writing up the design specs., based upon whatever Dublin Core
documentation I am able to lay my hands on and what I am able to
learn from participating in the DC mailing lists.
This means that it does not yet exist any metadata documents to look
at, nor is there yet a functioonal DC aware search engine.
A brief presentation of some of the challenges I believe we have to
tackle in his particular application of the DC can be found in the
following note:
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/iris_ws.html
I don't know if the above makes our project suffisciently intersting
to you to be worthy of study, but if it does -- feel free to contact
me.
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- gisle hannemyr ( [log in to unmask] - http://home.sol.no/home/gisle/ )
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