Lee Library Information Systems Task List
Digital Library
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: Test Handle Server pointing at CONTENTdm compound document
Projects: Digital Library
Priority: 99 Task ID: 695
Long Description: Set up the handle server to point at a CONTENTdm compound document. Then see how well the URL works from Unicorn and other places. Once we have this done, I'd like to discuss with Scott Eldredge and others the possibility of using the Handle server for all digital archive objects, making it easier to move them later.
Status: Hold
Owner: Price, Ryan Contributors: Jenson, Jacob
Due: TBD Opened: 2/12/2004
Changed: 4/20/2004  
2/12/2004 Assigned to Ryan and Jacob. I mentioned this to Scott Eldredge and Kayla Wille.
3/16/2004 We had hoped to use the Handle server included with DSpace, but it has been modified to only function with DSpace. I told Ryan to hold off implementing a new Handle Server until we decide where to go with this.

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