Intranet Metadata, for Better or Worse
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Opportunities
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Internal servers define "zones" of data
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Automatically generate descriptions: title, author, keywords, date,
type, categories
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Integrate with Content Management Systems
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Problems
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Inconsistent and incoherent metadata (even <title> tags!)
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Non-HTML file formats are problematic
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"Properties" fields often blank or duplicated