Number of found records: 33
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CHENEZ, Christian; KERMARREC, Gaël |
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On-going Metadata Initiatives in Europe |
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5th EC-GIS workshop stresa, Italy 28-30 June 1999. |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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Although a lot of effort has been spent in developing metadata services at European, national, regional, local and sectorial levels, the perception is that users of geographic information still complain that data is not visible enough. One can also say that a large part of this user community does not know of either the meaning or existence of metadata. Metadata are, as it is usually said, 'data about data'. The aim in developing metadata services is to help users in finding producers and vice versa. Many projects have been launched to make this dream come true: at the European level, for example, with the GDDD, GEIXS, ESMI, EWSE and others. This paper aims to clarify the situation in setting the scene and highlighting the difficulties in creating metadata services (co-ordination, standardisation, metadata capture, etc). Are metadata so useful? Do other solutions to this strategic problem exist? Would it not be better to let the market create a metadata infrastructure instead of trying to make it institutionally? These are key questions for which we would like to find answers (AU) |
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Europe; metadata |
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CRAVEN, Timothy C. |
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'DESCRIPTION' META tags in locally linked web pages |
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Aslib-Proceedings, 2001, vol. 53, n. 6, p.203-16 |
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On line (11/05/2005) |
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As part of the author's research aimed at developing a prototype computerized abstractor's assistant, reports on work that investigated how people and organizations summarize their own web pages, and, specifically, how and to what extent they make use of META tags, especially those with NAME = DESCRIPTION, for this purpose. Surveys advice given in printed and web-based sources on HTML META tags with NAME = DESCRIPTION. In order to determine patterns of relationships among descriptions on the same site, links were followed automatically from 460 pages registered with Yahoo! and previously found to contain descriptions. Results showed that sites where the registered page pointed to many other pages were significantly less likely to reuse the same description on those other pages; and where different descriptions were used, words from the registered page's description tended to appear toward the beginning of other descriptions. (DB) |
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Automatic abstracting; World Wide Web; Web pages; Metadata; Tagging; HTML |
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Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
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Dublín Core Metadata Element Set |
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On line (11/05/2005) |
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Description of the different metadata elements |
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metadata elements |
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DUVAL, Eric; HODGINS, Wayne; SUTTON, Stuart; [et al.]. |
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Metadata Principles and Practicalities |
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D-Lib Magazine, 2002, vol.8, n.4. |
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On line (11/05/2005) |
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This presents the principles of the metadata and practical questions |
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metadata; XML; principles |
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