WebWatch Trawl of UK University Entry Pages (3)

Metadata

In October 1997 54 institutions used "Alta Vista" type metadata on their main entry point. By July 1998 the metadata was used on 74 entry points.

In contrast Dublin Core metadata was used on only 2 pages on both occasions.

Cachability

Interest in cache-friendly web resources has grown since the introduction of network charging on 1 August 1998.

Over 50% of institutional HTML resources were found to be cachable, with only 1% not cachable. Further analyses is needed for the other resources.

<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Mailbase is a national mailing list centre for UK HE">

<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="mail", "listserve">

<META NAME="DC.Title" CONTENT="The Mailbase Home Page">

<META NAME="DC.Creator" CONTENT="John Smith">

Possible Use of Alta Vista and Dublin Core Metadata

% telnet www.ukoln.ac.uk:80

GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:22:51 GMT

Server: Apache/1.2b8

Content-Type: text/html

Telnet can be used to analyse HTTP headers, including caching information.

A WebWatch service is being developed to provide a web-interface to the telnet command, to give more helpful information.

URL:

http://www.ukoln.ac.

This resource uses HTTP/1.1.

The resource is cachable.
The resource was last updated on …

Possible Interface

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