Judith Plümer
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Osnabrück
Abstract: During the last few years scientists started to make scientific information available themselves using the internet. They distribute their preprints, publish dissertations, offer homepages and present their departments.
Discovery and integration of such information is a challenge. What one wants is high quality retrieval for high quality material.
The use of MetaData lays foundations of suitable search engines. Creation of MetaData can be done by authors or providers of preprint servers using freely available form interfaces. We will demonstrate the usage of MetaData in detail for preprints available through the Mathematics PREprint Search System (MPRESS/MathNet.preprints). Another example for the usage of MetaData is the organization of WWW servers in departments. It will be discuss in comparison to the preprints service.Analogous services are available in the Physics community at http://i.am/physnet/.
Interoperable MetaData schemes provide and approach to build a system that runs interdisciplinary requests.
We also discuss further plans that lead to a higher quality in retrieval.