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Metadata and the web
- 1. Richard Sapon-White March 18, 2013
- 2. The growthof the Web Metadata in the context of the Web Important metadata schemes: XML, HTML, MARC
- 3. From 1996-2007: ◦ 77,138 Web sites 125 million Web sites Access provided through search engines ◦ Google is the most used search engine Search engines use Web crawlers (a.k.a., spiders or robots) to collect information on web sites ◦ Copy web pages and locations to build a catalog of indexed pages
- 4. =Invisible Web,Deep Web Web crawlers cannot: ◦ submit queries to databases, ◦ parse file formats that they do not recognize, ◦ click buttons on Web forms, or ◦ Log-in to sites requiring authentication Therefore, much of the information on the Web is invisible! ◦ How much is invisible? ◦ Thousands of times larger than the indexed/visible web!!
- 5. • TopicDatabases — subject-specific aggregations of information, such as SEC corporate filings, medical databases, patent records, etc. • Internal site — searchable databases for the internal pages of large sites that are dynamically created, such as the knowledge base on the Microsoft site. • Publications — searchable databases for current and archived articles. • Shopping/Auction. • Classifieds. • Portals — broader sites that included more than one of these other categories in searchable databases. • Library — searchable internal holdings, mostly for university libraries. • Yellow and White Pages — people and business finders. • Calculators — while not strictly databases, many do include an internal data component for calculating results. Mortgage calculators, dictionary look-ups, and translators between languages are examples. • Jobs — job and resume postings. • Message or Chat . • General Search — searchable databases most often relevant to Internet search topics and information. From: Michael K. Bergman, "The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value," Journal of Electronic Publishing 7, no. 1 (August 2001). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html.
- 6. Poor sitedesign results in invisible web sites To create web sites for human and machine retrieval: ◦ Use hyperlinked hierarchies of categories ◦ Contribute Deep Web collections’ metadata to union catalogs (which can then be indexed by search engines) Google’s Sitemap can provide detailed list of pages on a site http://www.sitemaps.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Site_map
- 7. Create conventional,MARC-based metadata Access via library catalogs, union catalogs Problems: ◦ Creating MARC records is labor-intensive, slow, expensive ◦ Web sites are dynamic (content, URL’s), require MARC records to be revised Solutions: ◦ Dublin Core ◦ META tags ◦ Resource Description Framework
- 8. Dublin Core PowerPoint
- 9. Embed 2 metadata elements in HTML <Head> section of web page ◦ Keywords ◦ Description Example: ◦ <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="data standards, metadata, Web resources, World Wide Web, cultural heritage information, digital resources, Dublin Core, RDF, Semantic Web"> <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Version 3.0 of the site devoted to metadata: what it is, its types and uses, and how it can improve access to Web resources; includes a crosswalk.">