Metadata - classes for simple metadata ====================================== Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Dave Beckett. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. WARNING: THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. IT HAS BEEN TESTED AND USED BUT MAY STILL BE UNRELIABLE. Beta also means that the interface is unlikely to change. This collection of modules provide an implementation of Dublin Core compatible metadata and subclasses for IAFA Templates, SOIF (Harvest) and should be easily extendible to similar (fairly flat) metadata formats. CONTENTS in perl module list form Name DSLI Description Info ------------- ---- -------------------------------------------- ----- Metadata:: ::Base bdpO Base metadata functionality DJBECKETT ::IAFA bdpO IAFA templates metadata DJBECKETT ::SOIF bdpO Harvest SOIF metadata DJBECKETT ::HTTP adpO Metadata record for an HTTP log record DJBECKETT BEFORE BUILDING, TESTING AND INSTALLING this you will need to: Build, test and install Perl 5 (at least version 5.004). BUILDING perl Makefile.PL make make test make install (if the tests look okay) EXTRAS lib/Metadata/HTTP wraps an HTTP log line (in common / extended log format) which may be useful. The examples directory contains some programs that may be interesting: gather A sort-of replacement for the Harvest gather program using these modules. htdig-dump dumps an ht://dig search docs database into a Harvest-compatible SOIF format (untested). It should be trivial to convert this into a real harvest gatherd. scan-log HTTP log scanning example attempting to identify robot requests Dave Beckett http://purl.org/net/dajobe/