Interesting times

Abstract

It is apparent that, despite the common reference to the World Wide Web as a “digital library”, it lacks any of the organising features which would be expected from a library. The rate of growth of Web resources is such that they have grown, and continue to grow, beyond the ability of human intervention to catalogue them or control access to them. The software tools which have so far emerged to assist searching are inadequate for the task, but it is hoped that a development in standards will lead to documents being created with the “hooks” in place, which will facilitate their retrieval by tools yet to be developed. Dublin Core metadata appears to be the optimum such emergent standard, and its use is to be encouraged among Web authors.

Citation

MacLennan, A. (1998), "Interesting times", Library Review, Vol. 47 No. 2, pp. 106-109. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539810369972