[Dspace-general] Call for participation in Google pilot project

[MacKenzie Smith]

Call for participation in a pilot project with Google, DSpace, and OCLC:

At the DSpace user group meeting at MIT last week, a representative of 
Google gave a presentation on how they would like work with the DSpace user 
community to improve access to our content, possibly creating a new 
advanced search feature similar to the "site:" feature which limits 
searches to particular domains or servers. Perhaps something like a 
"dspace:" filter to limit searches to scholarly content from our 
institutional repositories.

The mechanism we discussed at the meeting isn't fully defined, but we will 
start by working with OCLC to develop a new registry-type service of 
collections for Google to harvest. OCLC will use the OAI protocol for 
metadata harvesting to collect eligible metadata records from participating 
institutions, resolve the DSpace Handles (or other persistent IDs) to the 
standard form of URLs that Google prefers, and Google can then use the URLs 
in OCLC's registry to index the relevant content from participating 
institutions.

To express an interest in participating in the pilot project, please send 
me email this week and we'll take it from there.

Thanks,


MacKenzie/


MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries
Building 14S-308
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu