Fwd: Avalon Hits (fwd)

From: Johan Hjelm (hjelm@w3.org)
Date: Thu, Mar 18 1999 

Message-Id: <4.1.19990318141655.00c47be0@127.0.0.1>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:17:46 +0100
To: www-wca@w3.org
From: Johan Hjelm <hjelm@w3.org>
Subject: Fwd: Avalon Hits (fwd)

Hi folks,
this forwarded letter from a metadata list I participate in seems to imply
that metadata gives more hits. Any thoughts?

Johan

>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:48:15 +0100 (MET)
>From: "Sigfrid Lundberg, Lub NetLab" <siglun@gungner.lub.lu.se>
>X-Sender: siglun@gungner
>To: Svenska metadatalistan <svenskmetadata@munin.lub.lu.se>
>Subject: Fwd: Avalon Hits (fwd)
>Sender: owner-svenskmetadata@munin.lub.lu.se
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:56:30 -0500
>From: "Diane I. Hillmann" <dih1@CORNELL.EDU>
>Reply-To: Dublin Core Technical Advisory Committee <DC-TAC@OCLC.ORG>
>To: DC-TAC@OCLC.ORG
>Subject: Fwd: Avalon Hits
>
>Folks:
>
>I thought y'all might be interested in this, anecdotal evidence though it
>may be.  I helped them out with their template and made a few suggestions
>back when they first started using DC.
>
>The Avalon Project is at: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
>
>Diane
>
>>Status: U
>>X-Sender: mew29@mew29.mail.yale.edu
>>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:34:20 -0800
>>To: "Diane I. Hillmann" <dih1@cornell.edu>
>>From: "Marie E. Whited" <marie.whited@yale.edu>
>>Subject: Fwd: Avalon Hits
>>Mime-Version: 1.0
>>
>>>X-Sender: bfray@bfray.mail.yale.edu
>>>X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1
>>>Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:09:20 -0500
>>>To: blair@pantheon.yale.edu, las46@pantheon.yale.edu,
mew29@pantheon.yale.edu
>>>From: William Fray <bfray@pantheon.yale.edu>
>>>Subject: Avalon Hits
>>>
>>>Hi Lisa and Blair and Marie
>>>
>>>I've been looking at the Avalon Project hits in the elsinore server stats.
>>>Basicly to see what difference the Meta Tags and the Dublin Core made. It
>>>looks as if there is quite a difference.
>>>
>>>I put the documents with the Meta Tags out on Dec. 23. Prior to that date
>>>we averaging about 8,000 hits per week and the growth rate was quite
>>>modest; a hundred or so a week increase. Since Dec. 23 and especially since
>>>the first week in January the hits have been increasing by about 1,000 per
>>>week and for the week of march 7 jumped 2,000 over the previous week to
>>>17,361. In the next week or so I will be putting out an update in which
>>>about 85% of the documents will have Meta Tags with at least a partial set
>>>of Dublin Core data. It will be interesting to see if the increases
>>>continue and if they accelerate. At this rate, assuming no increase, we
>>>would have close to 1 million hits a year.
>>>
>>>Also the Online-Brittanica has numerous links from their articles to
>>>documents in the Project.
>>>
>>>Bill
>>

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                     Johan HJELM
       Ericsson Research, User Applications Group 
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             The World Wide Web Consortium
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