Dublin Core Metadata System

[Bill Drew]

Keith Shafer wrote:
> 

> 
> There are reasons why Scorpion returned the subjects it did as opposed
> to the ones you might expect.  Understanding this is part of our
> ongoing research.  Sometimes, it appears to be because we as humans
> have a different idea about what a page is about, even when the text
> on the page seems to indicate something else.  For instance, the Cows
> page has a lot of text on it not related to agriculture.  (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.

> 
> Thanks for the pointers to pages that Scorpion fails to classify
> properly.  While we will look at these to try to improve Scorpion, I
> hope that this does not cloud the issue of promoting Dublin Core and
> related metadata work that Eric meant to start by building a prototype
> service.


I don't believe it clouds the issue at all.  I actually like the idea
behind Scorpio and the Metadata generator.
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