Jack,
Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. provides an integrated suite of software
tools that are designed to facilitate the publication and management
of metadata over a network (including the Internet). Our products are
standards-based and support a variety of metadata standards including
Dublin Core, GILS, FGDC, and DIF. Our goal is to provide the tools
that will allow metadata standards to become ubiquitous.
The strategy for accomplishing this goal is to provide solutions that
include both full text as well as structured search capabilities.
This is being accomplished through the integration of Blue Angel
metadata tools with the full text search engines of leading vendors.
We and our full text search engine business partners recognize the
growing importance of metadata solutions and are in the process of
completing the integration of our respective solutions.
The net result is that within the next few months, users will have
comprehensive solutions for searching both full text and metadata.
And, since the integration is being accomplished on a vendor neutral
basis, users will be able to select the full text search engine of
their choice.
Completion of the integration work will be announced via national
press releases over the next few months. Notification will also be
included on our web site at www.bluangel.com.
Jon Riewe
Blue Angel Technologies, Inc.
1220 Valley Forge Road, Unit #44
P.O. Box 987
Valley Forge, PA 19482-0987
Phone: 610-917-9200
Fax: 610-917-9958
Email: [log in to unmask]
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>From: Jack Gilding [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 8:30 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: DC and legacy metadata fields
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>Has anyone got a feel for the speed with which major search engines
are
>likely to support the new DC syntax. In particular, when we are
writing
>software to create DC fields, how important will it be to continue
writing
>existing field formats as well for DESCRIPTION and SUBJECT for
compatibility
>with existing systems. For example having both:
><META NAMEÜ.Subject CONTENT="piano, score, Bach">
><META NAME=keywords CONTENT="piano, score, Bach">
>and both:
><META NAMEÜ.Description CONTENT="A poem by Fred Smith about the moon
in
>June">
><META NAMEÞscription CONTENT="A poem by Fred Smith about the moon
in
>June">
>In short my question is: Is this worth the effort, or by the time we
got a
>decent amount of data deployed (3-4 months??) would any decent search
engine
>recognise the DC. syntax?
>Please peer into your crystal balls and offer an opinion soon.
>Cheers
>Jack
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>Jack Gilding ph: (03)9628-4652
>Project Manager, VET EdNA Project fax: (03)9628-2472
>Communications & Multimedia Unit [log in to unmask]
>OTFE, PO Box 266D Melbourne VIC 3001 http://www.edna.edu.au/vetwp/
>(level 4 Rialto Sth Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne Australia)
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