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...advantages of digitized information is it’s far easier to chase down dead ends,” he says. For Weinberger, the importance of digitization is primarily found “one level of abstraction up from the content itself,” in the realm of metadata and search. Metadata is identifying information that is programmed into these online texts, making them easier to search and locate. It’s important to get metadata right because metadata is how these online works can be located in the vast ether of the digital world, and also gives...
...click. Singingfish, acquired by America Online (which is owned by Time Warner, TIME's parent company) two years ago, can search AOL's video library of 15,000 titles, plus millions more over the Web, by looking for their titles and other attached identifying text, known as their metadata...
...Internet. Although Google's program scours Word and Excel documents, Outlook messages and more, to find matches for your queries, it recognizes audio and video only by file name. Microsoft's desktop-search program, on the other hand - part of a new MSN Toolbar Suite (beta.toolbar.msn.com) - examines the metadata embedded in multimedia files as well. The MSN program also allows you to create different indexes for separate user accounts. So if you share a computer with, say, your kids and want to maintain some privacy, you can still keep them away from any files you have hidden. (With Google...
Microsoft's desktop-search program, on the other hand--part of a new MSN Toolbar Suite beta.toolbar.msn.com)--examines the metadata embedded in multimedia files as well. The MSN program also allows you to create different indexes for separate user accounts. So if you share a computer with, say, your kids and want to maintain some privacy, you can still keep them away from any files you have hidden. (With Google, you'd have to exclude those files from the index altogether...
...searchable by subject. More specialized and tightly focused search tools are the kind of solutions to the invisible Web's sprawl you can expect to see more of, says Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher, a journal for database professionals. "What you get are high quality sites, preselected directories and metadata [data about data] collections. They may be a minuscule proportion of what's on the Web, but hopefully they're the good stuff...
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