[WEB4LIB] [LONG] A Note on Internet Search Engines and Metadata

[and at dtv.dk]

Terry.Kuny at xist.com said:
> WHAT DO SEARCH ENGINES DO WITH METADATA?
> None of the Internet search engines accessible on the  web (i.e.
> Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, etc.)  will actually read Dublin
> Core (DC) or any other metadata and do  meaningful things with this
> information.

Terry.Kuny at xist.com said:
> There are no search engines that specifically exploit  the advantages
> of structured search using any metadata scheme.

Well, we have a regional search-engine (NWI) here in Scandinavia that in fact 
do this.
Its far away from US and not trying to cover the entire WEB but it does handle
metadata.
It collects DC metadata (and for the most instances map found meta-tags into 
DC)
and do provide a structured metadata search interface.
http://nwi.dtv.dk/MD/

The search engine metadata facilities is beeing developed in connection with
the Nordic Metadata Project.

Regards
Anders

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