Wu, C.-J.: Experiments on using the Dublin Core to reduce the retrieval error ratio (1998)
0.00
0.003606434 = product of:
0.014425736 = sum of:
0.014425736 = weight(_text_:information in 5201) [ClassicSimilarity], result of:
0.014425736 = score(doc=5201,freq=6.0), product of:
0.06134496 = queryWeight, product of:
1.7554779 = idf(docFreq=20772, maxDocs=44218)
0.034944877 = queryNorm
0.23515764 = fieldWeight in 5201, product of:
2.4494898 = tf(freq=6.0), with freq of:
6.0 = termFreq=6.0
1.7554779 = idf(docFreq=20772, maxDocs=44218)
0.0546875 = fieldNorm(doc=5201)
0.25 = coord(1/4)
- Abstract
- In order to test the power of metadata on information retrieval, an experiment was designed and conducted on a group of 7 graduate students using the Dublin Core as the cataloguing metadata. Results show that, on average, the retrieval error rate is only 2.9 per cent for the MES system (http://140.136.85.194), which utilizes the Dublin Core to describe the documents on the World Wide Web, in contrast to 20.7 per cent for the 7 famous search engines including HOTBOT, GAIS, LYCOS, EXCITE, INFOSEEK, YAHOO, and OCTOPUS. The very low error rate indicates that the users can use the information of the Dublin Core to decide whether to retrieve the documents or not
- Source
- Journal of library and information science. 24(1998) no.1, S.50-64
