Internet search engines' response to metadata Dublin Core implementation

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 310-320

  Zhang, Jin ^a   Dimitroff, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative studies; Dublin Core; Information retrieval; Metadata; Recall; Search engines; Subject searching; Visibility; Web sites; World wide web

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DUBLIN CORE; INFORMATION ORGANIZATION; SUBJECT SEARCHING;

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METADATA; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 4444299909     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551504045851     Document Type: Article

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