[Dspace-general] RE: [Dspace-tech] Google Scholar and OAI

[MacKenzie Smith]

Thanks Nick -- interesting idea that I will definitely run by the google guy.
And your multiple repositories scenario is quite real (e.g. BiomedCentral's 
hosting service).
So great, we'll see what happens.

MacKenzie

At 11:34 AM 2/3/2005 +1030, Nick Lothian wrote:
>May I suggest something like the RSS autodiscovery standard
>(http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/02/important_change_to_the_lin
>k_tag)?
>
>I think something like the code below placed in the "head" section of
>the DSpace front page would be appopriate:
>
><link rel="Index" title="OAI Base URL" href="url/to/oaibase">
>
>The W3C's HTML 4 spec says that links with rel="Index" "Refers to a
>document providing an index for the current document." That sounds
>appropriate to me. The title attribute would need to be specified (in
>case a document requires multiple indexes).
>
>(See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.2 and
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links).
>
>The advantage of this over robots.txt is that it allows multiple DSpace
>repositories to exist on the same domain and point to different OIA
>catalogs (Not sure why anyone would want this though... Perhaps an
>outsourced service provider managing multiple DSpace repositories for
>multiple institutions or something?).
>
>Regards
>  Nick Lothian