Jim Weinheimer writes,
>
> And this doesn't include the lawsuits currently going on over metadata.
> These can only increase in number. I've been watching them very closely.
> ...
> It's a new world out there. This may be the first time that people
> actually care about cataloging, and that's good, but...
>
This is one more reason why the general, commercial search-engines will
become ever more doubtful as sources for scholarly and scientific
information.
OTOH, those engines don't care that much about metadata anyway,
and DC was not just created to serve Altavista etc. but for the
improvement of resource discovery in general.
And also, terms you are likely to search for in scholarly and scientific
enquiries are not likely to be of a kind that anybody might care to buy
the top places for or raise lawsuits over.
And Altavista, or so I hear, will visibly mark those entries that have
been bought.
B.E.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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