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Describes the Web Characterization Project that characterizes the use of metadata in Web documents by extracting a valid sample. Discusses Web resource discovery and description; sampling methods; metadata and embedded document description; HTML; Dublin Core metadata elements; and home pages versus internal Web pages. (Author/LRW)

Includes five articles that examine key trends in the development of the public Web: size and growth, internationalization, and metadata usage; Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora) for use in digital libraries; developments in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI); the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mataurangao Aotearoa (NLNZ) knowledge collection/preservation/access; and usage statistics for the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database. (AEF)

Describes a methodology for sampling the content of the Web through the use of randomly generated Internet Protocol addresses. Implementation of the sampling methodology; Vitality of the ability to create a random sample of the content of the Web; Feature of Web statistics based on the methodology described; Scalability of the methodology.

Focuses on the application of bibliographic control to World Wide Web resources. Process in bibliographic unit identification; Types of bibliographic units in the Web; Parallelism between journals and Web sites, and journal articles and Web pages; Usability of cataloging and indexing in the control of journal literatures.