Dublin Core Metadata System

Jian Liu jiliu at script.lib.indiana.edu
Fri Apr 11 15:31:56 EDT 1997


Do you think the shopping cart analogy can be used here? What I am
thinking is: when scorpion is given a url, instead of giving back some
results, it can return with a list of results and allow the url provider
to make selections and then go and pick up the results. 

Regards,

Jian
Indiana University Libraries

> 
> Bill Drew writes:
> > Keith Shafer wrote:
> > > ... (BTW - Scorpion asigns more subjects to a page than those
> > > that Eric returned and Agriculture does appear for the Cows page
> > > in a normal Scorpion output. But, now I digress...)
> > 
> > That may be the case about other text but what I found confusing is
> > that I already use a Metadata element for key words.  I think I'm
> > using it correctly.
> 
> Good point.  Normally, the raw text of documents are just pumped
> through Scorpion blindly.  So, the problem in this case may the valid
> metadata already available in the document was not given priority over
> the regular text in the document.  Somehow, we should build a process
> that takes advantage of the existing metadata to drive the automated
> processes.  This would hopefully clean up the automated output and
> could be used to verify the general metadata.
> 
> Keith.
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