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Hi all, and sorry for the crossposting.

A new version - 0.2(beta)- of Dublin Core Services/Describethis
(http://www.describethis.com) has been published. This new version, as
main feature, brings  us an automatic generator of keywords: DCS
incorporates now a dictionary of 5300 words in 11 different languages,
included Catalan, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Italian, among others,
that permits to recognize and generate keywords automatically.  The
system applies analitic algorithms to find the best terms that better
describe a given resource. The new terms generated are added to the
ones already included in the document, although these are marked
visually to avoid confusions with the terms proposed by the own
authors.  In the case of the HTML documents that do not have included
these type of metadata, the list of generated keywords can be used as
a guide and a valid proposal for the publishers and authors of these
contents.
 
The current version delivers some corrected and improved features. 
Among these, can be emphasized the following ones:
- The new list of metadata types and variants found in the documents
HTML now includes more than 70 elements in 3 different languages
- The service has incorporated a new parser to recognize and extract
the metadata for the Creative Commons licenses (see
http://creativecommons.org).
- The RDF converter and generator has been improved to produce a valid
and more complete document.
- Now DCS has applied Web Standards to all the documents generated
(XML, XHTML and RDF) to include the elements that indicate the type of
document (DOCTYPE) and language marks.
- The HTML documents parser now is capable of recognizing metadata
placed in other tags than traditional tags like META, concretely the
LINK tag and the comments embedded in the body of the text.
 
In addition, due to the successful application in the blogs network,
our development team has dedicated special attention to the metadata
and particular characteristics of this "type" of online content. With
these changes and improvements the already existing references to
DescribeThis and the future ones will have a metadata extraction
results more extensive and detailed.
 
For the following version, DescribeThis will include: 
- An editor for Dublin Core registers and collections. 
- A multilingual and improved interface for DescribeThis - at present
are almost ready the first versions in Spanish and Catalan -
- Selected dictionaries and thesauri to be applied to improve the
automatically generated/extracted results
- Features for user subscription and register, so that results can be
closest to the needs and personal profile of each one.
 
We wish to thank to the specialists and users in general that have
sent us valuable messages with recommendations, critics and advice. In
special to Daniel O'Connor, Paula A Markes and Eva M�ndez, to whom we
must thank for many of the changes and improvements.
 
Again, thanks to all.  We will continue working to improve our
services and products.
 
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Dublin Core Services is a set of web services that offers tools for
the description and automated analysis of online resources. Through
the interface that provides DescribeThis (http://www.describethis.com)
it allows the management and individual processing of the metadata
collections that have been extracted or generated from the resources. 
The site offers an easy-to-use interface to indicate the resource to
analyze and simple options to download the results like XML, XHTML or
RDF files.

Send your messages to support@describethis.com.

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!  Ernesto Giralt
Team of Development of Dublin Core Services.