Jim Weinheimer muses,
>
> ... And they all realize that if their
> site isn't in the top 40-50 results, it may as well not exist. I'm sure
> that these clever people will come up with uses for the Dublin Core that
> we can't even dream about right now.
>
There will be easier alternatives, and using no DC of any flavor. Altavista
has now introduced the option of buying the top places for keywords of your
choice.
> This will be the reality of the situation. In libraries, the catalog has
> been tightly controlled by responsible people, but on the web, this
> cannot even be hoped for. If we make our own search engines with our own
> rules and procedures, there may be a chance.
But the library also has a tightly controlled collection. The provider of a
search service does not normally own any of the resources it indexes, and
has no control over their content. Can there ever be easy solutions?
Except the one mentioned above.
B.E.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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