Creating an automatic exact phrase search in Google by taking the original title from a metadata record should lead to approximately 840,000 records in the AGRIS database with access to the full-text. The full-text can exist anywhere in the world. Approximately 1,400,000 records should find useful citations. The Archive, comprised of records created before 1995, turns out to be particularly useful as a source for citations. Utilizing this method allows access to the full-text to be created and updated automatically without any human intervention.
Certain problems remain with incomplete coverage in Google and Metacrawler, and although these are certainly troublesome, the difficulty lies in the search engines and not in the method of searching. Reconsideration of directory structures could solve this problem.
In light of these results, we can visualize a new interface that would allow users to search the AGRIS catalogue just as they do now. When they find a record of interest, they can make an automatic exact title search on Google. If they find the result too large, they will be able to click other parts of the metadata record to add additional information to the search: author, year of publication, series/serial title, etc., whatever they would want to try.
High-quality metadata means adherence to semantic standards (i.e. cataloguing rules) and above all, consistency, but it is important to remember that rules need to change when new circumstances arise. For example, in 1968 people could never have imagined that the titles they entered into their records could someday be searched automatically in a giant computer based in the USA, which would then search the entire world, ultimately finding a digital version of the same resource they catalogued, that had been placed on still another computer in Bangkok, Thailand in 1999. Similarly, they could never have guessed that their rule of automatically correcting typographical errors could make that same search impossible (i.e. a resource has the title "Dresings and sauces", while the record has "Dressings and sauces"). Therefore, it is clear that the purpose of recording the title has changed. This rule, along with other rules and practices, should be reconsidered in light of new demands and new possibilities.
