Public Libraries Corner: A public library metadata initiative

Sally Criddle,Resource Co-ordinator Phone: 01225 826250 Fax: 01225 826838     S.Criddle@ukoln.ac.uk     (UKOLN, University of Bath)

Ariadne 1997
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:1997:i:11:p:19)

Abstract:

The increasing volume, not to mention variable quality of resources available on the Internet can make searching for that useful resource time consuming and frustrating. Popular search engines such as Yahoo and Alta Vista can deliver hundreds of sources in response to an enquiry, but refined, sophisticated searching is difficult to achieve. Enabling effective and efficient searching is particularly important when you are providing public access to the Internet, where people are often using the Internet for the first time. Metadata (which is data about data) is being increasingly used in attempts to provide more effective ways of searching and to make Internet resources more accessible. This article introduces an initiative to extend that use of metadata into the public library community.

Keywords: From each article, you can move back and forth between articles written for the same column in other issues of Ariadne.
Note: In this issue Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community. This article appears in the Web, and not the print, version of Ariadne.
Month: September 1997
Year: 1997

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