Dublin Core Meta Generator

[Mark McFarland]

>>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)!
>
Jennifer - yes, that's the site I referred to in my presentation...what I
liked about this tool is what you describe below in your reply ("fill in the
blanks, etc..."  I was comparing it to OCLC's tool only in terms of how
differently each approaches the problem of automatic cataloging using DC.
There doesn't appear to be (if it was there I couldn't find it) a way to
ask the program (DC DOT) to do the kind of analysis that OCLC's does.  The
criteria on DC Dot is straightforward...and obvious, the criteria OCLC uses
is not so obvious.  DC DOT would provide better results for pages that were

set up with that tool in mind.

>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.
>


Mark McFarland
Electronic Information Programs Office
UT Austin Libraries