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CS 430: Information Discovery

Lecture 14

Automatic Extraction of Metadata

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Course Administration

No Office Hours: Tuesday October 22.

Guest Lecture: Tuesday, October 22. Carl Lagoze, Distributed information retrieval

Midterm Examination: Wednesday, October 23, Upson B17, 7:30 to 9:00. A sample examination and a discussion of the answers is on the web site.

The midterm and final examinations aim to reward regular attendance in class (including guest lectures) and careful reading for the discussion classes.

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Course Administration

TA Office Hours: Matthew Schultz will hold office hours on Tuesdays 1:30 to 2:30 every week.

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Automatic extraction of catalog data

Example: Dublin Core records for web pages

Strategies

• Manual by trained cataloguers - high quality records, but expensive and time consuming

• Entirely automatic - fast, almost zero cost, but poor quality

• Automatic followed by human editing - cost and quality depend on the amount of editing

• Manual collection level record, automatic item level record - moderate quality, moderate cost

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DC-dot

DC-dot is a Dublin Core metadata editor for web pages, created by Andy Powell at UKOLN

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/

DC-dot has two parts:

(a) A skeleton Dublin Core record is created automatically from clues in the web page

(b) A user interface is provided for cataloguers to edit the record

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Automatic record for CS 430 home page

DC-dot applied to http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs430/2001sp/

<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc">

<meta name="DC.Title" content="CS 430: Information Discovery">

<meta name="DC.Subject" content="wya@cs.cornell.edu; Course Structure; Readings and references; Slides; Basic Information; William Y. Arms; Information Retrieval Data Structures and Algorithms; cs430@cs.cornell.edu; Assignments; Syllabus; Text Book; Laptop computers; Assumed Background; Nomadic Computing Experiment; Notices; Course Description; Code of practice; Assignments and Grading; Last changed: February 6, 2001">

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Automatic record for CS 430 home page (continued)

DC-dot applied to http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs430/2001sp/

<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="Cornell University">

<meta name="DC.Date" scheme="W3CDTF" content="2001-02-07">

<meta name="DC.Type" scheme="DCMIType" content="Text">

<meta name="DC.Format" content="text/html">

<meta name="DC.Format" content="5781 bytes">

<meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs430/2001sp/">

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Observations on DC-dot applied to CS430 home page

DC.Title is a copy of the html <title> field

DC.Publisher is the owner of the IP address where the page was stored

DC.Subject is a list of headings and noun phrases presented for editing

DC.Date is taken from the Last-Modified field in the http header

DC.Type and DC.Format are taken from the MIME type of the http response

DC.Identifier was supplied by the user as input

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DC-dot applied to http://www.georgewbush.com/

<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc">

<meta name="DC.Subject" content="George W. Bush; Bush; George Bush; President; republican; 2000 election; election; presidential election; George; B2K; Bush for President; Junior; Texas; Governor; taxes; technology; education; agriculture; health care; environment; society; social security; medicare; income tax; foreign policy; defense; government">

<meta name="DC.Description" content="George W. Bush is running for President of the United States to keep the country prosperous.">

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Automatic record for George W. Bush home page

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DC-dot applied to http://www.georgewbush.com/

<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="Concentric Network Corporation">

<meta name="DC.Date" scheme="W3CDTF" content="2001-01-12">

<meta name="DC.Type" scheme="DCMIType" content="Text">

<meta name="DC.Format" content="text/html">

<meta name="DC.Format" content="12223 bytes">

<meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.georgewbush.com/">

Automatic record for George W. Bush home page (continued)

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Observations on DC-dot applied to George W. Bush home page

The home page has several meta tags:

<META NAME="TITLE" CONTENT="George W. Bush for President"> [The page has no html <title>]

<META NAME="CONTACT" CONTENT="George W Bush Campaign, P. O. Box 1902, Austin, TX 78767, Phone: (512) 637-2000">

<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="George W. Bush is running for President of the United States to keep the country prosperous.">

<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="George W. Bush, Bush, George Bush, President, republican, 2000 election and more

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Collection-level metadata

Several of the most difficult fields to extract automatically are the same across all pages in a web site.

Therefore create a collection record manually and combine it with automatic extraction of other fields at item level.

For the CS 430 home page, collection-level metadata:

<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="Cornell University">

<meta name="DC.Creator" content="William Y. Arms">

<meta name="DC.Rights" content="William Y. Arms, 2001">

See: Jenkins and Inman

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Metadata extracted automatically by DC-dot

D.C. Field Qualifier Content

title Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose

subject not included in this slide

publisher Corporation for National Research Initiatives

date W3CDTF 2000-05-11

type DCMIType Text

format text/html

format 27718 bytes

identifier http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01levy.html

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Collection-level record

D.C. Field Qualifier Content

publisher Corporation for National Research Initiatives

type article

type resource work

relation rel-type InSerial

relation serial-name D-Lib Magazine

relation issn 1082-9873

language English

rights Permission is hereby given for the material in D-Lib Magazine to be used for ...

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Combined item-level record (DC-dot plus collection-level)

D.C. Field Qualifier Content

title Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose

publisher (*) Corporation for National Research Initiatives

date W3CDTF 2000-05-11

type (*) article

type resource (*) work

type DCMIType Text

format text/html

format 27718 bytes

(*) indicates collection-level metadata

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Combined item-level record (DC-dot plus collection-level)

D.C. Field Qualifier Content

relation rel-type (*) InSerial

relation serial-name (*) D-Lib Magazine

relation issn (*) 1082-9873

language (*) English

rights (*) Permission is hereby given for the material in D-Lib Magazine to be used for ...

identifier http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01levy.html

(*) indicates collection-level metadata

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Manually created record

D.C. Field Qualifier Content

title Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose

creator (+) David M. Levy

publisher Corporation for National Research Initiatives

date publication January 2000

type article

type resource work

(+) entry that is not in the automatically generated records

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Manually created record

D.C. Field Qualifier Content

relation rel-type InSerial

relation serial-name D-Lib Magazine

relation issn 1082-9873

relation volume (+) 6

relation issue (+) 1

identifier DOI (+) 10.1045/january2000-levy

identifier URL http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01levy.html

language English

rights (+) Copyright (c) David M. Levy

(+) entry that is not in the automatically generated records

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Collection-level metadata

Compare:

(a) Metadata extracted automatically by DC-dot

(b) Collection-level record

(c) Combined item-level record (DC-dot plus collection-level)

(d) Manual record

For web pages information retrieval works better by automatic indexing, rather than automatic extraction of metadata followed by indexing of metadata.

However, we will see later an effective example of automated extraction of metadata from video sequences (Informedia).