Dublin Core Meta Generator

[Jennifer Heise]

>From jahb Thu May 01 11:45:53 1997
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 11:45:53 EDT
From: jahb (Jennifer Heise)
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Subject: Re: Dublin Core tag generator
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>This past weekend, at the Texas Conference on Library Automation at the
>presentation by Mark McFarland I learned of another site which reads a
>page and produces DC tags.  This one produces less tags, and does not use
>established schemes, such as Dewey Classification, than the one at OCLC.
>This makes it a bit more accurate.

Hm... Am I looking at the right site? When I put in a page, the list of
Subject/Keywords it generated was the content of my site (or rather, the
links)!

It's nice for automatically generating META tags for basic stuff on the page
(fill in the blanks, run it and cut and paste the META tags).
But it didn't seem to do any kind of evaluation. And it couldn't extrapolate
the Author's name from the copyright statement.

Don't get me wrong, it's an excellent piece of work and I'd like to recommend
it to my users (page creators). But I'm not sure that it can be compared to
the OCLC program, which tries to analyze content.

Jennifer Heise,                             Net: jahb at lehigh.edu    \
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