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Institutional Web Management Workshop 2003: Parallel Session A5

Search facilities for web sites

11 June 2003, 4.00 - 5.30pm

  1. Exercise 1: What do you want and need?
  2. Introduction
  3. Search Engines used in UK HE
  4. Trends in change
  5. Issues with categories of search software
  6. Issues with free (open-source) software
  7. Issues with free-of-charge externally hosted indexes
  8. Issues with 'built-in' software
  9. Issues with commercial software
  10. What do you need?
  11. Controlling access intentionally: 1
  12. Controlling access intentionally: 2
  13. Controlling access unintentionally
  14. Adding metadata
  15. Metadata and PDFs
  16. Indexing other pages and filetypes
  17. Indexing OPACs
  18. Excercise 2: Reviewing your problems
  19. Knowledge management?
  20. Further info

Author: Helen Varley Sargan
June 2003