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The Information Professional's Role in the Today's World & Conference Closing Notes
Session Chair: Jan Vymětal |
23.5.2002
13:15 - 15:55
New Auditorium |
Invisible Web - What Search Engines Can´t Find |
Martin Lhoták, Main Library of Academy of
Sciences, Dept. of IT, Prague
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Search engines such as Alta Vista, Google, etc. are mostly used tools for the
Internet searching. The problem is that they are able to index just a smaller part of the web content. The rest, concerning of
content-rich and valuable databases, is not possible to find this way. The presentation is oriented on those cases where is not
appropriate to use general search engines and it is also giving solution how to reach this vast information resources. Invisible web
and mainly its mapping and describing is a next challenge for information professionals. |
Author information:
The Library of The Academy of Sciences of The Czech Rep, 1997 - 1998 Automation/IT Department, 1998+ Head of
Automation/IT Department. Conference presentations concerning IT in libraries since 1999. |
