Seeking and structuring on the Internet

01/25/2001


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Table of Contents

Seeking and structuring on the Internet

How can we make information easier to find on the Internet?

Search engine problems

Search engine problems cont’d

Search engine overlap (NZ/Aus Queries on 10 search engines)

Search engine performance (Relative Recall for NZ questions)

Search engine developments

Search engine developments cont’d

Subject specific Portals

Metadata

Dublin Core Elements

Dublin Core example

Cooperative Online Resource Catalogue (CORC)

Using Metadata

Problems in applying metadata

Beyond HTML: XML

eXtensible Markup Language: XML

XML cont’d

Is XML the solution?

Example XML/MARC record

XML tools

Conclusion

Author: Alastair Smith

Email: Alastair.Smith@vuw.ac.nz

Home Page: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/