Lee Library Information Systems Task List

Lee Library Information Systems Task List
Description:	Googlisibility of the Digital Collections
Projects:	Digital Library
Priority:	99	Task ID:	866
Long Description:	Randy is concerned about Google not finding our digital collections.
Status:	Open
Owner:	Lund, Bill	Contributors:	Eldredge, Scott Finlay, John Jenson, Jacob Price, Ryan
Due:	TBD	Opened:	12/16/2004
Changed:	1/29/2005
12/16/2004	Things to consider: What type of metadata will Google use to index our site? Google Hacks says that if you get into DMOZ that you have a better chance of being indexed. Should we be getting individual collections into DMOZ? How much and how deep is Google searching in our web space? We should call the U to see what they are doing. Are there ways to direct Google to what we want them to see?
1/6/2005	Actions from the meeting and from discussions with Randy and Julene: Julene and Bill will talk to Dick Hacken about getting library links on his pages. Scott Eldredge will add metadata to the collection pages and in the alt tags for images to describe the collections. Scott Eldredge will submit our collection webpages to DMOZ for indexing. Another thing that we can do is make sure that the titles of our collection pages match the content. Many search engines use this as a major factor in indexing the site.
1/29/2005	Instructions to enable a full-text collection to be searched by Google can be found at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/googlecrawling.htm.
Description:	Add authority control to DSpace?
Projects:	DSpace
Priority:	99	Task ID:	862
Long Description:	One of the features that we could use, as well as others, is some type of authority control on a metadata field.
Status:	Hold
Owner:	Lund, Bill	Contributors:	Finlay, John
Due:	TBD	Opened:	11/29/2004
Changed:	3/2/2005
11/29/2004	I asked Margret Branschofsky of MIT about this at the ASIS&T meeting. She mentioned the lack of authority control as a real problem in DSpace. Even author's names are inconsistent. She said that they have no plans to incorporate this into the product, but would be eager to see someone else do it. This may be an opportunity for us to add to the DSpace community.
12/13/2004	Talked with Joan Gregory of UofU and she thinks this is a good idea. There will be a UALC Systems committee meeting on this.
1/3/2005	John reports that OCLC is doing some work on authority control in DSpace. He will contact them to get more details.
1/25/2005	John found someone who has incorporated authority control into DSpace. They are submitting it to the DSpace project. John has it on the DSpace test server.
3/2/2005	Putting this on hold for now. I don't think that we'll worry about this until it becomes an issue.