Re: META tag standards, search accuracy
Eric Miller (emiller@oclc.org)
Mon, 14 Oct 1996 14:26:21 -0400
Nick Arnett writes:
> At 1:10 PM 10/14/96, Eric Miller wrote:
>
> >Its clear that library cataloging is entirely to expensive (and time
> >consuming) for describing all of the resources on the net... no one (I
> >hope) is going to argue this. Its also clear that full-text indexing
> >will not work (someone may argue against this...)
>
> Let's not look at this as an either-or proposition. Full-text search
> engines these days generally can also do relational operations on fielded
> data, such as that you'd extract from META tags.
>
> In other words, full-text PLUS meta-data (from META tags, HTTP headers,
> annotations, ratings, etc.) is more powerful than either one alone. I
> don't think there's any question about that.
Absolutely! Yeah... what he said... :)
eric j. miller <URL:http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric>
emiller@oclc.org Office of Research, OCLC, Inc.
emiller@cis.ohio-state.edu Dept. of Geography, The Ohio State University