MKSearch MKSearch provides a Web metadata spider and search engine.
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MKSearch provides a Web metadata spider and search engine. MKSearch provides a Web metadata spider and search engine.MKSearch is a metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in Web documents instead of free text in the document body. The data acquisition system conforms to the Dublin Core metadata in HTML recommendations, and supports other application profiles, such as the UK e-Government Metadata Standard. It also indexes native RDF formats, including RSS 1.0. The system has five major components: a Web crawler, an HTML document validator and formatter, a set of custom indexers, an RDF storage and query system, and a public query interface, provided through a standard servlet container.System composition The MKSearch system is composed of several other free software components. Further details are provided in the MKSearch development plans. JSpider JSpider is a Java Web crawler engine that has pluggable interfaces that can be used to add custom processing and content handling. MKSearch uses custom SAX-based content handlers for extracting metadata from Web documents. Sesame Sesame is a set of RDF processing and storage APIs and applications that includes RDF data query facilities. MKSearch uses Sesame to store indexed metadata in RDF format and to search the repository via the public query interface. JTidy JTidy is a utility for correcting common HTML markup errors and is used to convert HTML documents to XHTML so they can be processed using SAX.

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