[Dspace-general] Re: Google and single Item

[Daniela Dragone]

Hi,
first of all thanks for your help

I'll wait for the reply of the researchers at Google that work with you

As Boon Low suggested, I've submited the 'title-browse', 
'community-collection-browse' and 'author-browse' pages of DSpace at Unipr 
directly to Google for indexing for the time being...

Daniela



At 01/09/2004 23.13, MacKenzie Smith wrote:
>Hi Daniela,
>
>Actually, Google walks a DSpace site by following links from the browse 
>indexes (e.g. title browse) so it normally *does* index all the metadata 
>from the item pages,
>as well as the bitstreams that are linked from them. If I pick a random 
>DSpace at MIT item, say http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1508 and then search 
>"1721.1/1508" in Google
>(or any other metadata from that item) it returns the item record as the 
>first hit (with the OCLC version of the item record that they build using 
>OAI as hit #2).
>This is working for other DSpace sites too (e.g. ANU -- search 1885/39969 
>in Google, or HKUST -- search 1783.1/176, and so on).
>
>In fact, I can't get any hits in Google from community titles on your 
>DSpace home page, so it appears that Google isn't actually indexing your 
>DSpace site at all,
>except for some *parts* of your home page. This might be some sort of 
>robots.txt problem, but I'll email the researcher at Google that we work 
>with to see if he has any theories about this...
>
>MacKenzie
>
>
>At 10:30 AM 8/31/2004 +0100, Boon Low wrote:
>>Hi Daniella,
>>
>>This is because the item pages are generated dynamically from the 
>>repository. Google only indexed static pages on the web. In order for 
>>Google to find the items, you may either need to provide a static page to 
>>all the items.. e.g. providing (submit to Google) a webpage containing 
>>hard coded URLs for all single items pages.. I don't think Google is that 
>>intelligent to find the item pages via the DSpace front-end.. (requires 
>>automatic search of all possible items and indexes!).
>>
>>Boon
>>
>>
>>-----
>>Boon Low
>>Digital Library Division
>>Edinburgh University Library
>><http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/boon>http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/boon
>>
>>
>>On 31 Aug 2004, at 09:59, Daniela Dragone wrote:
>>
>>>Hi to all,
>>>I've a problem with google.
>>>Google finds the home page of my installation of DSpace 
>>>(<http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/index.jsp>http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/index.jsp), 
>>>
>>>but it can't find single items, for example 
>>><http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/handle/1889/62>http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/handle/1889/62 
>>>
>>>If I insert, for example, the title of this item in the search bar, 
>>>Google finds other related pages but not the page of the item in dspace.
>>>Any idea?
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>Daniela
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>>        Dott.ssa Daniela Dragone
>>>               dragone at cilea.it
>>>           CILEA - www.cilea.it
>>>
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>>
>>
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        Dott.ssa Daniela Dragone
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           CILEA - www.cilea.it

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