This paper describes how combining high quality resource description with a web crawler using simple Dublin Core and the RDF model created a novel search system for the teaching, learning and research communities. This gave the major benefits of both - returning high quality resources as well as timely and more widespread resources. It also provided new features such as presenting the provenance of the discovered resources, improving cross-subject area discovery and was capable of integrating well with other emerging semantic web systems such as web page annotations.
This paper has been submitted to WWW2002.
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