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Metadata Search Engines - Archive

AU government agencies adding metadata searches to Web portals, By Stephen Withers. ZDNet Australia, September 4, 2003. "The Victorian government has taken advantage of Web Wombat’s hosted search service to add Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata searching to its eGovernment Resource Centre..."

Victoria Online - is a metadata driven portal which provides Victorian's with access to State, Local and Federal Government information and services. Since its launch, late 2003, Victoria Online has been busy refining and improving the metadata used to drive the user interface and in particularly to facilitate discovery. Emphasis has been placed on ensuring that DC.Title, DC.Subject and DC.Description are keyword dense with natural language terms identified as a result of search term analysis. This aids in improving relevancy of search results by ensuring that the most relevant records are returned based on the most used search terms.

Web Wombat helps burrow through AGLS metadata. Web Wombat, Press Release, 4 September 2003. "Web Wombat has launched a cutting-edge metadata search service that allows government agencies to access information across their AGLS Metadata. The service allows agencies to take full advantage of the resources and investment they have put into implementing the Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata standard on their portals and websites..."

A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives, by Baden Hughes and Amol Kamat. D-Lib Magazine, Volume 11 Number 2, February 2005. "In this article we describe the design and implementation of a full-featured metadata search engine within the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC)..."

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