[WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar

[Robin Boulton]

I suppose this would be a situation where the use of XML and metadata
tagging could solve the problem - but how to get this into all entries?


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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar
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> Here's an interesting problem. I went to Google Scholar and put in
> "library cataloguing" and got a great number of hits, many which didn't
> seem terribly relevant. It turns out that they index the verso of title
> pages, so this was picking up every book with a British CIP. I assume
> you'd get a similar result if you did a search with one of the terms
> being "copyright". So one problem with really really "full" full text
> indexing is that there is no distinction between administrative
> information and content.
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