Dublin Core and Electronic Information Retrieval

Abstract

The explosion of information on the Internet has resulted to the inability of professional abstractors, indexers and catalogers to manage effectively the digital resources using the formal bibliographic apparatus. Hence search for a reasonable alternative way to obtain usable metadata for electronic resources, so as to give authors and information providers a means to describe the resources to facilitate their retrieval. Dublin Core (DC) provides a relatively simple and concise method for resource discovery of composite electronic resources over various networks. This article examines the importance and application of Dublin Core metadata in electronic resource discover over various networks. It is expected that the endorsement of Dublin Core by librarian and other information professionals will address the lack of a common categorization scheme for web metadata which makes searching for information on the web difficult. Samaru Journal of Information Studies Vol. 6 (1&2) 2006: pp. 13-18